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Sahil Singh
Sahil Singh

Reputation: 3797

What does each property in Device Manager Details page mean?

For every device in the device manager, there are scores of properties listed (see the following image, some of the properties are also highlighted in green). I am unable to find any source which details the meaning of each property. In absence of such a resource one could only guess the meaning from the names.

Device Manager Details

I am trying to get status of each device programatically to get a list of devices which have been explicitly disabled (from device manages, or otherwise), and some details about them. This lead me to exploring the details page of device manager.

To answer the question you could do either of the following.

  1. Refer a link, which explains the meaning of some of the properties.
  2. Describe some of the properties which you yourself know.

In either case, I will be creating a list compiled from all answers here, which would have property name, along with its description.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2099

Answers (1)

Ben Voigt
Ben Voigt

Reputation: 283733

(partial) documentation for Windows 2000 and later:

newer documentation

For example, you circled the "Status" property, which is defined as follows:

The DEVPKEY_Device_DevNodeStatus device property represents the status of a device node (devnode).

Property key                      DEVPKEY_Device_DevNodeStatus
Property-data-type identifier     DEVPROP_TYPE_INT32
Property access                   Read-only access by installation applications and installers
Localized?                        No

Remarks

The value of DEVPKEY_Device_DevNodeStatus is a bitwise OR of the DN_ Xxx bit flags that are defined in Cfg.h

source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff542414(v=vs.85).aspx

Upvotes: 1

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