Questions tagged [device-manager]

The Device Manager is a program accessible through the Windows Control Panel and is used for managing hardware on a PC. This tag should be used for questions related to writing code which interfaces with the Device Manager, not for simply using it.

The Device Manager is a standard component in the Control Panel on Windows. It manages hardware attached to the computer, such as displaying what is connected to the system and enabling/disabling specific hardware items.

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Windows - How to explore the devices by connection. Like Windows "Device Manager"

The idea is to start from the VID and PID of USB hub and then explore its contents. Given a USB hub how do we explore the connected devices? I need to programmatically explore the attacked devices to a USB hub, some of these devices can be "USB…
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Get WebClip/Device Manger Information from with an iOS Application

I have an iOS device which is device managed by AirWatch. I am trying to acquire the URL for the app catalog which can be found manually under Settings -> General -> Device Management -> Device Manager -> More Details as depicted in the following…
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Using a Win 10 system to access all connected devices using device manager and Py script

I am unable to access the disk drives on the Windows system using infi.manager package found on PyPi. Tried the below : from infi.devicemanager import DeviceManager dm = DeviceManager() dm.root.rescan() disks = dm.disk_drives names =…
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Install KMDF Sample-Driver manually on Windows 7 SP1

I just created a KMDF Sample driver using Visual Studio 2013 Express with WDK 8.1 on a Windows 7 (64 bit) computer. When I build the solution I get no errors. As I want to check later if my driver is running I inserted the common Debug-Line into my…
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How to update the libusb driver using the INF file on device manager

I am developing a program for communicate between device and pc with libusbdotnet dll.The device uses CDC(Communication Device Class) in USB classes. I created an INF file from libusbdotnet inf wizard. And I updated driver with inf files on device…
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SetupApi : enable virtual network adapter using c++ setupApi

On windows, I am unable to find how to enable hotspot adapter i.e. virtual adapter through coding if it was disabled manually from 'Network Connections'. I want to implement as we do from device manager and enable it by right click on network…
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devcon restart not working on windows7

I am trying to run devcon command on windows7 as below but this is stuck forever,if I right-click on "scan for hardware changes" it is stuck aswell,how can I activate a COM port via commandline using devcon?is there a better way? devcon.exe restart…
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c# Access Printer Hardware Tab Information Programmatically

Is there a way to get the listed "Device Functions", as shown in the attached image through c#? Furthermore, I am trying to retrieve via c# the Universal Serial Bus controller for a specific printer, which in this case is "USB Printing Support". I…
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Mapping DiskDrive to Storage Controllers

I have a task to gather information regarding the storage controller on which the disk drive is present for verification purpose. After some research, all I can find is use of devcon tool to gather necessary information. I can get storage controller…
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Getting the Physical Device Object name of a disk device

I need to retrieve the "Physical Device Object name" of a disk device from a user mode application on Windows, as seen in Device Manager. I have a solution now that involves a kernel driver that gets loaded and interrogated through IOCTLs. Once in…
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How to get list of ENABLED (media) devices in C#

I am trying to get the media devices in a PC that are enabled. I can use WMI to get the list of devices, however there doesn't seem to be a property identifying if the device is enabled or not (I am referring to the devices' status in Device…
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Link to the Device Manager

Is there a way to add a link to the Device Manager in a WPF application? I mean, a hyperlink that once clicked opens the Device Manager window. Thank you very much.
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Android : DeviceManager.setMaximumTimeToLock() not working

I am making a device policy app in android in that we have several task to perform on of the task is: We want the user to do attempts on screen lock,when 5 attempts been made to user there is 30 seconds timer popup in android system dialog. we…
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ADB doesn't list my Device

I'm trying to push an app from eclipse to my phone but adb doesn't work. It doesn't see my phone when I write 'adb devices'. First I thought it could be a problem of Cyanogen Unofficial Android 5.0, so I reverted to 4.4, but it doesnt work either. I…
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How to retrieve 'bus reported device description' for Universal Serial Bus Controllers in MATLAB?

I am trying to extract 'Bus reported device description' and 'Bus Relations' informations for Universal Serial Bus Controllers in Matlab. I can't find it in the registry and I don't know exactly how to use setupapi.dll function in Matlab to get the…
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