{"id":60,"date":"2007-06-22T09:23:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T08:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2007\/06\/22\/how-to-show-unattached-devices-in-windows-device-manager\/"},"modified":"2007-06-22T09:23:06","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T08:23:06","slug":"how-to-show-unattached-devices-in-windows-device-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2007\/06\/22\/how-to-show-unattached-devices-in-windows-device-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Show Unattached Devices in Windows Device Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was searching again for this (I once knew it, but I keep forgetting it), I will simply write it down here: if you want to see all the unattached devices in the device manager, you have to set the environment variable <span class=\"userInput\"><strong>devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices<\/strong> to value <strong>1<\/strong><\/span>. If you then start the device manager, you have to also check &#8220;<strong>Show hidden devices<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>This is documented in Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/315539\">KB315539<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was searching again for this (I once knew it, but I keep forgetting it), I will simply write it down here: if you want to see all the unattached devices in the device manager, you have to set the environment variable devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices to value 1. If you then start the device manager, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/2007\/06\/22\/how-to-show-unattached-devices-in-windows-device-manager\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Show Unattached Devices in Windows Device Manager&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dont-panic.cc\/capi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}