HOWTO: Viewing Non-Present Devices in the Device Manager

ID: Q245730

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000, version RC2

SUMMARY

Device Manager does not show non-present device by default even if you enable 'Show hidden devices" in the 'View' menu. To view non-present devices you must set the DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES environment variable to a non-zero value and then launch the Device Manager from the command prompt as shown below.

At a command prompt, type:

C:\>set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1

Then type:

C:\>devmgmt.msc
Then, from Device Manager's "View" menu, select the "Show hidden devices" option.

If you always want the Device Manager to show non-present devices, you can set this as an environment variable via the "Environment Variables" dialog on the "Advanced" tab of the System property sheet in the Control Panel.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbDDK kbWinOS2000 kbPlugPlay kbDSupport kbGrpNTDDK kbWDM
Version : WINDOWS:RC2
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbhowto