03 October 2008

Using devcon to update a driver

If you work with drivers, it quickly becomes a PITA updating them, although I've gotten quite fast at doing this on XP, thanks to muscle memory.

(Vista doesn't change the focus properly in the Device Manager wizard, by the way, so my muscle memory doesn't work on Vista.)

Anyway, it turns out there's a tool available from Microsoft called devcon: it lets you do pretty much everything from the command line that Device Manager does, and then some.

For example, here I'm using it to update a driver:











By the way, the grep I'm using is from UnxUtils.

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