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Manage Windows Drivers With Command Prompt Using DevCon
Manage Windows Drivers With Command Prompt Using DevCon
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Windows Device Manager is certainly a useful built-in tool to manage, uninstall and disable drivers without having an expert knowledge. The Device Manager seems handy and anyone with
some basic knowledge of Windows, can open it and use it. However, today I am going to introduce you to such a program that helps users manage installed Windows drivers, right from the
Command Prompt. DevCon is that free command-line utility, which lets users manage drivers from the command line.
After opening the Command Prompt windows, enter the following command:
devcon.exe help
If you want to know the status of any hardware, you need to following command,
For instance,
If you want to know the status, enable or disable any hardware driver, you must know the name of that hardware. In case you do not know, you can get a brief list of all names by entering the
following command,
devcon classes
Just like Device Manager, DevCon users can also search for any hardware changes using the following command,
devcon rescan
For those, who want to know more about any particular hardware or device, this command may help,
devcon.exe –m:\\YourComputerName find devicename
You have to enter your computer name to specify your PC as it also works on network computer.