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liorda
liorda

Reputation: 1572

Rename a USB HID device under Windows

I wrote a firmware to a USB device that uses the generic HID class for communicating with the host PC.

When connecting the device to the PC, it shows the hard-coded string I put in the firmware, but after the driver installation is over (using the generic Windows driver), the device's name is changed to a generic "USB Input Device".

How can I rename the device back?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2781

Answers (1)

SomeWittyUsername
SomeWittyUsername

Reputation: 18368

You can't do that. The device manager shows the string that is registered at installation by the device driver - in your case it's the generic Windows driver (which obviously has no knowledge of your proprietary FW functionality beyond support of USB protocol). You need to write a driver on top of the Windows USB driver to give you the functionality you want.

Upvotes: 1

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