A driver, or hardware driver, is needed so that computer devices like the mouse, monitor or video card, can communicate with the operating system. The Windows operating system ships with a huge number of drivers, which means that some users do not have to install a single third party driver to get all of their [...]

Categories: Hardware, Tutorials Basic

DevManView is a Device Manager alternative for the Windows operating system. Regulars might already have noticed that the program is another Nirsoft application. The program comes with the usual traits of every Nirsoft programs including portability, the usual table layout and export options. The Windows Device Manager works but does not offer a good overview [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Rarst inspired me to take a closer look at the command line utility devcon which has been created by Microsoft. Devcon is basically a command line version of the Windows Device Manager. We recently published an energy saving article that contained a tip to disable computer hardware to save power which is especially useful for [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Device Remover is a portable device manager for the Windows operating system. It is compatible with 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 and requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0. The main advantage of Device Remover is the display of all installed devices, drivers and services on the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you are the type of computer user who likes to upgrade his computer with new hardware devices instead of purchasing a new computer whenever a speed, storage or performance update is due you might find the following tip interesting. It is very likely that old device drivers are still present on the system which [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

Did you ever try to identify devices in your device manager that have a yellow icon ? Devices with yellow icons are unknown devices that give you almost zero information about the type of the device. The freeware Unknown Device Identifier displays a list of unknown, disconnected or old devices with information about each of those devices.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

Normally you do not see which devices have been connected to your computer in the past. It could be interesting to say the least to find out if someone else connected a device to your computer in your absence. You have to change a value in windows using the command prompt.

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Windows