Talk:Device Manager

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I am still confused about device manager — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.76.130.54 (talk) 10:35, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Me too. A link to a site where the various parts of the device manager (such as "pcmcia adapters") are explained would be appropriate. The Ubik (talk) 15:46, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Hidden Settings Section, Batch and Command Invocation
I just performed a major edit adding information on how to start the Device Manager in 2000/XP with the command prompt and batch files, and how to use these to use the non-present devices setting. However I am not a frequent wiki editor, so the format needs some work as well as some wording/tone. Additionally, some fact checking need be done on what I said about ANSI and batch files. Additionally, it is unknown for which windows versions other than XP this information applies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.226.250.63 (talk) 00:25, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

Non-Present Devices
The display of non-present devices is very useful, especially with the plethora of COM port devices created every time you plug in a USB device into your PC!

In Vista:

Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings

Click on Environment Variables Button

Create a new System Variable

Variable name:   devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices Variable value:  1 Close and restart Device Manage, Show Hidden Devices and non-present devices are visible 'greyed out'.

Taken from http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=867 The comments indicate this process should also work in XP SP3 and Windows 7.

In Windows 2000 - see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241257

Andru Witta (talk) 02:26, 23 November 2010 (UTC)