Under Windows XP, is there any easy way to change or spoof the vendor- and product-id of a USB device? (changing the corresponding descriptive strings would probably be good too)
Say for example there's a useful program which expects a particular device but you don't see why you should buy a new one when you have a very similar device already that's likely to work with the program.
I've done lots of Googling and apparently it can be done under Linux so it occurs to me to run Windows in a VM under Linux, but that would be a bit inconvenient.