Saturday, January 17, 2009

remove Unused devices

After sometime ago I wonder what devices have been installed via its Automatic Updates in XP or Vista. Normally these hidden device names are not visible in Device Manager and I have to sieve through Windows registry database to locate and verify one by one. Then an idea of DOS scripting came to my mind, so I started to write a batch file:


echo off

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
devmgmt.msc
exit

that allows me to view all devices that are commonly displayed by Windows and check its device properties to make wise judgment. Wow, superb!

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