Questions tagged [device-manager]
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Microphone works even though it is disabled in the Device Manager
I'm running Windows 10, and I have a microphone that I do not want to use.
I disabled the microphone in the Device Manager. When I checked, I found that it still worked. My laptop has no other ...
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I somehow disabled all USB ports on my PC through “Device Manager.” What can I do to fix this?
Somehow I accidentally disabled all USB ports through the “Device Manager.” So I've lost mouse and keyboard.
My motherboard is an ASUS Z170-A.
When I restart the machine I can get into BIOS where I ...
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Find device by Hardware ID in Device Manager?
Is there a way to search through the Windows 10 Device Manager, e.g. by Hardware ID? (Or is there another tool that can do this?)
I know (part of) the Hardware ID of a device I have, e.g. it starts ...
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Can't uninstall Intel Optane software components
My PC started freezing up a few times a day. Not finding any smoking gun in Event Viewer, I looked for recent updates to rollback, and I found https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/...
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How to bulk remove items from Bluetooth devices list of windows 11?
This is how my Bluetooth list looks on windows 11
This is polluting my quick connect window. Making it harder to find the device I want to connect to.
I am looking for a script or even a tool that ...
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Find the com port of a specific device on command prompt
I know we can find it out from the device Manager under ports. But I want to be able to get this info on command line so I can incorporate it in my python script. I looked at tools like WMI, Devcon. ...
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How to add a playback device in Windows 10
Recently, with greatest reluctance I upgraded to Windows 10 and now I cannot see my secondary playback device when I insert audio jack.
I tried built-in audio troubleshooting and it didn't help.
I ...
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Enabling disabled Asus NumberPad
I have found these instructions for disabling the Asus NumberPad via Windows Device Manager.
However, before I disable it, I need to know how to enable it back again in case I need it.
Additional ...
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How to identify USB Ports in Device Manager?
How can I identify which items in Device Manager indicate actual, physical USB Ports?
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Is it possible to toggle disabled/enabled devices from Command Line, simlar to Device Manager?
I like to play Fallout 3 which is very buggy normally, and even more so once I've added some mods. Needless to say, it crashes a lot. I can deal with the crashes, the only problem is when it does my ...
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Unknown device on wifi network
I have a new unknown device with the name F4X0VG3 with a MAC address d4:54:8B:AD:17:90 showing up on my wifi network. How can I figure out what it is?
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how to remove obsolete device and network entries? Device manager "uninstall" option has no effect
I am trying to remove a few "obsolete" things which annoy me (because I like to have everything cleen, working and not interferring with each other, fresh, etc..).
I tried looking for solutions ...
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How to open Device Manager as admin?
My company has made our Win10 users to be "standard users" (without admin rights). However, there is a possibility to run a program using admin rights with some "auto elevation" (Avecto Defendpoint?) ...
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Why can't get vid and pid in device manager?
Plug in my usb and check in device manager,select General UDisk USB Device:
I can't get the usb's vid and pid value.
Enter into cmd with administrator permission:
wmic path CIM_LogicalDevice where &...
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Internal network card not detected any more
I was asked to fix a Windows XP PC whose internal NIC stopped working over night.
The following has already been found out / tried:
NIC is not in device manager any more (it shows up however if ...
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PowerA Xbox series X/S won't work on my PC anymore
I recently tried to use my PowerA Spectra Infinity controller on my Windows 11 PC.
It works completely fine with my Xbox One, but when I try to use the controller on my PC, it won't show any lights on ...
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Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?
I've inherited an old PC from my girlfriend's dad and when setting up the printer I got a bit of a surprise:
Two questions spring to mind here:
Why does Windows think my wireless keyboard is a ...
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Windows 10 dont applies static IP settings of WiFi profile at reconnect
Windows 10. When i enter static IP information (addr, GW, DNS) for a specific WLAN network, the connection works fine. After disconnect, the reconnect tooks slightly longer than usual, and the connect ...
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In Windows 11 my user is admin but OS doesn't allow me to open device manager
After one wrong click I got the upgrade to Windows 11 and now my bluetooth drivers does not work anymore. I'm trying to reinstall them, but although my user is Adminstrator I get the following message ...
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How to disable/enable network adapter from command line on the Windows 10?
Currently, when I need to disable/enable network adapter I'm performing the following steps:
Opening the device manager (⊞ Win+R, devmgmt.msc and Enter).
Searching for the required network adapter.
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CPU not waking monitor from sleep (driver issue?)
My (Windows 11) CPU is not connecting to its monitor, despite all other peripherals working normally. The system itself also works completely normally, I am able to use the keyboard, mouse and ...
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Windows 7 randomly installs an "Unknown Device" successfully
Rarely (several days to weeks between occurrences,) and seemingly at random, I get a balloon notification from Windows 7 (x64 SP1 Home Premium) that it is installing hardware for me.
Whatever is being ...
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How to cleanup the history of USB device in Windows?
In the process of fixing Unable to connect iPad with Lenovo ThinkPad Nano X1 through USB-C SuperSpeed/Thunderbolt 3 cables I reinstalled OS but preserve all the data and apps, and now I'm looking how ...
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Unwanted sound when notebook's screen is locked
I have Legion 5 Pro 16ARH7H with Win 11 pro. Two external monitors are connected to my laptop, one is via HDMI and the other via VGA. Hence, the laptop has no VGA out; the second monitor is connected ...
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windows 10 disk all of a sudden has no data and having I/O errors
A drive i have been using for several years all of a sudden is not showing to have any data
trying to click the drive shows error
D:\ is not accessible.
The request could not be performed because of ...
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How to open an item in Device Manager without a mouse?
We have a Windows 10 system. The USB mouse's left click isn't working (the right click works, and I'm not sure about the wheel. The pointer is fine). To try to fix this, I figured out how to get ...
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What is the difference between Software Components and Software Devices in Window's Device Manager?
What is the difference between Software Components and Software Devices in Window's Device Manager?
The answers that I could find online weren't satisfactory. For Software Devices, I understand that ...
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Finding a device given a physical device object name
I have a physical device object name, e.g. "\Device\0000007c".
In Windows 7, how do I find what device corresponds to that ID short of going through every device in my system in Device Manager, one ...
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How to automatically disable "Allow computer to turn off this device" on all devices in Device Manager
I need to frequently go through most devices and disable this option (if the Power Management tab is available) for clients machines (Win10/11).
Don't mind how it's done, Powershell/batch/VBS/etc.
I ...
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Bluetooth completely disappeared from laptop?
I was trying to resolve a Bluetooth earphone stuttering issue on my laptop and one of the articles I read suggested to pick the other bluetooth option for my earphones (picture from the article below)....
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Windows 10 - Driver issue
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 5 15IIL05, that recently had its screen replaced, the device was ‘outta commission’ for roughly 2.5 months, after replacing the screen and doing the initial reboot, the ...
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Can't uninstall a USB audio device driver. (Windows 10)
I'm trying to uninstall the driver for a USB audio interface (the Steinberg in the image below), because I want to install a fresh version, since the current one is acting flaky. For some reason a ...
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External HDD nowhere listed in Explorer / My Computer, but listed in Device Manager
I recently bought a cheap external HDD case to use with a laptop HDD, so I can have a cheap and simple backup external HDD.
Unfortunately the HDD does not show up in My Computer and Windows Explorer (...
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Proper Registry Key Needed for Script to Disable/Enable Windows 10 Touch Screen
I know that:
My Windows 10 Device manager has the "HID-compliant touch screen" hardware that I can set to "disabled" to turn off my touch screen.
I can create a short script in notepad to edit the ...
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Source of Microsoft Streaming Service Proxy device (and others)
I seem to have 3 sound devices on my Windows 10 installation that I haven't really seen before, called "Microsoft Streaming Service Proxy", "Microsoft Streaming Quality Manager Proxy&...
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Why are there four different HID Keyboard Devices in Device Manager?
I have one keyboard plugged in, but 4 different HID Keyboard Devices are shown. Why?
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Why does my laptop keyboard show up as Standard PS/2 Keyboard or HID Keyboard Device in Windows Device Manager, even though I don't have either?
Why does the Windows device manager show my laptop keyboard as a Standard PS/2 Keyboard on one laptop and as a HID Keyboard Device on the other, even though I already know that it is only connected ...
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USB to HDMI via a hub does not work
I purchased an HP 250 G8 Windows 11 laptop this year. For video output there is just one HDMI port on the laptop. My goal is to be able to connect and use two separate monitors.
In order to extend ...
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How to re-enable touchscreen on Windows 10 laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga)?
Couple of months back, my laptop was giving me the annoying "ghost touch" problem with my touchscreen, and not knowing how to fix it, I disabled my touchscreen via device manager.
After a recent ...
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Can't access the Device manager from Start menu, but working from Control panel, on Windows 10
I just installed Windows 10 a few days ago (Enterprise IoT).
Suprinsingly, if I open the "Start menu" and type "Device manager" and then Enter, I get this error:
It is:
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Ubuntu 20.04 VM on VirtualBox incompatible with "hardinfo" app
I already asked this Q on "Ask Ubuntu", but I think "Super User" community might help me too here.
Question:
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 VM on Oracle VirtualBox 7.0 (from Win10 host ...
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Why do I have a ton of HID and how can I get rid of them? [closed]
I have only three USB devices connected to my laptop. A Logitech keyboard, a Razer mouse, and a Toshiba external hard drive. However, I see a LOT of HID when I go to device manager. What is happening?
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Reduce heat output of unused laptop dGPU within Windows
I have an nVidia GTX 1650 Ti Max-Q built into my laptop, which I regularly use for rendering and ML-workloads. While I am in lectures at university or using it "in the field" I want to ...
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TPM 2 simulation with Windows 10?
I have an Asus Hero XI wifi with a 9900k but I never installed any TPM 2.0 chip (I confirm, there are no installed TPM 2.0 chip).
I remarked that device manager is showing since a while a TPM 2.0 ...
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Windows 10 Error Code 31 "The request is not supported" in Device Manager for WLAN NIC
I have an Hp EliteDesk 800 G3 DM 35W (mini) PC. The SSD failed.
After installing Windows 10 on a new SSD everything seems to work OK, EXCEPT the Wireless Card (Intel Dual Band AC 8265) is not ...
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if on Mac, how to see the Device Manager?
When I reading a document on the Internet:
go into the properties of your serial-to-USB adapter in Device Manager. It will tell you right there which port it is using.
if on Mac, how to see the ...
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Automatically do a "Scan for hardware changes" on startup?
I've got an IDE to SATA adapter that I use for my optical drive. I need to use one because I've still got a couple of IDE-based hard drives that I use, and those obviously connect through and utilise [...
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MIDI devices not visible anymore after removing services/devices
To reduce the DPC latency of my laptop I played around disabling/removing various drivers and services (without success though), possibly including.
However, I now notice that my MIDI devices do not ...
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Make Windows 10 Recognize Bluetooth Dongle as Bluetooth?
I stumbled across a six pin header on my motherboard designed for an internal Bluetooth module that uses USB protocols to communicate, and ended up making the actual cable that allowed me to place the ...
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Is there a way to find my laptop screen's pressure sensitivity rating through windows 11?
Recently purchased a Asus Flow x16 laptop, and I am trying to figure out the screen pressure sensitivity rating to buy a corresponding stylus. There is nothing in the manuals, online reviews, or the ...
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