This section discusses the Device Manager, its role within the Windows CE operating system, and its responsibilities for managing installable device drivers.
As mentioned in the topic System Architecture for Installable Device Drivers, the Device Manager is involved in the loading and unloading of installable device drivers. The Device Manager is a user-level process that is normally always running on a Windows CE platform. The Device Manager interacts with the Windows CE kernel, the registry, and with installable device driver DLLs.