On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Gavin Wilby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a lot of tools that will do it, but what is the preffered weapon > of choice in regard to identigying unknown devices in device manager.
I use the "Details" tab to get the "Hardware IDs" for the mystery device. Specifically, the Device ID for PCI, the Product ID for USB, and the Vendor ID for either. Then I check those IDs with the appropriate web site to lookup the manufacturer (and sometimes model). http://www.pcidatabase.com/ - has a nice web-based UI http://www.usb.org/developers/tools/ - has only an ugly "Company List" ASCII dump For the USB list, the file has 'nix-style end-of-line markers, so you need to do LF->CRLF conversion on 'doze. But then it can be searched with the tool of your choice (Notepad, FINDSTR, Excel, whatever). -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
