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I've been looking for a good way to 'clean house' on W2K. My install was a couple of years old and getting flakey. My 'system resources' was jammed with tons of useless 'hiden' devices.
This article gets 10/5 stars... :D
I've been looking for a good way to 'clean house' on W2K. My install was a couple of years old and getting flakey. My 'system resources' was jammed with tons of useless 'hiden' devices.
This article gets 10/5 stars... :D</ul>
I agree... this is a sweet little recipe.
btw, sweet php-nuke site you have there!
AlexTheBeast
Thanks!
8)
Follow the steps below to display the hidden device information:
1. Right-click "My Computer" icon on the desktop and select Properties
2. In the System Properties windows click on the Advanced tab
3. Click on Environment Variables button in the right middle of the window
4. In the Environment Variables window, bottom pane (called System Variables), click on New
5. For Variable Name, enter devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices
6. For Variable Value, enter 1
7. Click OK to close New System Variables, OK to close the Environment Variables window and OK again to close System Properties
Form now on, when you open Device Manager, you click on View and then select Show hidden devices from the menu, you can identify the hidden devices by their grayed-out icons.
Remember to delete the Variable devmgr_show_nonpresent_device when finish.
1. Right-click My Computer and select Properties
2. Click on the Advanced tab
3. Click on Environment Variables
4. In the Below window pane (System Variables), select the variable name devmgr_show_nonpresent_device and click on Delete
5. Click OK to close the Environment Variables window and OK again to close System Properties.
1) Open the Start menu and choose Run...
2) Type in:
cmd /c set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1&devmgmt.msc
3) press Enter.
4) In the Device Manager Console, from the View menu,
select Show Hidden Devices.
(the command remain stored in the history and you can recall it when you need)
B) From batch file
1) Create a new text file
2) Type in:
cmd /c set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1&devmgmt.msc
3) press Enter.
4) Save as MYDEVMGR.BAT
5) every time you need
5a) double click on batck file
5b) In the Device Manager Console, from the View menu,
select Show Hidden Devices.
THANKS!!!
joann
this helped me to uninstal lots of old drivers on XP
thx man
device installed (multimedia audio controller) and that it is being used
by another source. Anyone have any solutions?
"echo
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
devmgmt.msc
pause >nul
"
save as hidden.bat
.bat not .text
then dbl click on the bat file to run cmd and open devmgmt.msc
all on auto
Thank You
Barbara
Basically how to determine which of the following unused/grayed-out are valid:
13 grayed-out HID-compliant consumer control devices;
20 grayed –out HID-compliant devices;
23 grayed-out USB Human Interface Devices.
"C:\WINDOWS\win32k.sys:1";"Hidden driver";"Object is hidden"
"C:\WINDOWS\win32k.sys:2";"Hidden driver";"Object is hidden"
Am I doing something wrong, or is there another technique I can use?
Thanks