gHacks technology news » hidden-devices http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:37:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Find out which devices have been connected to your pchttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/29/find-out-which-devices-have-been-connected-to-your-pc/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/29/find-out-which-devices-have-been-connected-to-your-pc/#comments Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:17:05 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/29/find-out-which-devices-have-been-connected-to-your-pc/ 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.

Open the command prompt by pressing Windows + R, typing cmd and hitting enter. Type the following line and hit enter at the end:  set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 ; Once this is done open your device manager from the control panel and enable the option to view hidden devices in the View tab.

This ensures that all hidden devices that have not been removed in the device manager will be listed and you can see if someone else added a external hard drive, usb stick or similar devices to your system. Great way to find out if someone spies on you or copied files from your system while you were not there.

It can be easily countered by removing the device from the device managers list.

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