Windows magic weapon: Device Manager skills

"Device Manager" is one of the secrets that diyer often uses to manage common devices, including disabling or enabling devices and updating drivers of devices. Program And conflict between devices. But do you know how to use it? Let's take a look.

1. Make your Device Manager more powerful

"Device Manager" is a good helper for managing computer devices. In fact, you only need to take the following steps to display more device details in your "Device Manager, to make it more powerful.

Click Start> Run, type cmd, and press enter to open the Command Prompt window. Enter "set devmgr_show_details = 1" and press Enter. Then, enter the "Start devmgmt. msc" command and press enter to start the "Device Manager ". Take a closer look at your "Device Manager" and find out what is different? By the way, a "details" tab is provided to help you learn more about the specific parameters of computer components. However, what is missing in the US is that after the "Device Manager" is closed, the "details" tab will disappear the next time you open it again!

2. cleverly hide the optical drive

Click Start> Run, type devmgmt. msc, and press enter to open Device Manager ". Then, in Device Manager, find and expand the DVD/CD-ROM drive, and select the specific optical drive model to hide (if there are multiple ), click the "Disable" button on the toolbar or select "Disable" from the right-click menu. A confirmation dialog box is displayed, and click "yes, after a while, we can see that there is an extra cross in front of the device, indicating that the optical drive has been disabled. Open "my computer" or "Resource Manager", and you will find that the drive letter is missing!

Tip: In addition, if your optical drive is connected to the second ide interface separately, you can disable the secondary ide channel to hide the optical drive: first, find and expand the "Ide ATA/atapi controller" in "Device Manager", right-click "secondary ide channel", and select the "Disable" command.

3. display all devices

Take Windows XP as an example: in the "Device Manager" window, click "View> show hidden devices" to find several more devices in the list, after comparison, three hidden devices are available: nt apm/legacy support -- nt APM/legacy interface node (Note: if your Windows XP instance is powered off, probably because nt APM/legacy interface node is not started, you can try to start it to see if it can solve the problem); storage volume-general volume; non-plug-and-play driver.