Show old devices windows

This can be old devices that are no longer used, or hardware devices like an external hard drive or printer that are currently not connected. Windows will now display those devices in the list of hardware devices. Now it is time to click through all the hardware categories of the device manager to scan for devices that are not longer in use.

This can be computer monitors, input devices like keyboards or mice, video cards, hard drives, and practically any computer hardware that you may replace in a PC. A right-click on a device lists an option to uninstall the device and therefore also the device driver from the computer system.

The uninstallation should remove the device entry from the device manager. Nothing can go wrong if you happen to uninstall working hardware devices from the system.

Windows will either automatically install the new drivers at the next startup, or prompt for a driver disk to install the device anew. Cautious users might want to create a device driver backup before starting the process. You can use the Windows Device Driver to get rid of old hardware and devices that you no longer use.

While most Windows users may never run into trouble if they don't remove old devices from the operating system, some may and that is the main reason why this guide has been published. When i do it like Martin said i sea working and not working. So maybay kris his way is more easy. Oke Kris thanks ferry much for your explenation. Christal clear. But i have a question about when i am ready with the unistalation, and i have removed all the old device drivers.

How do i put the orginal configuration back into the old position? Do i restart the computer or do i have to give a command to put everything back into the old position? It will pass on to commands you run inside that command prompt like devmgmt.

Congrats for a great utility! USBDeview is more to my liking. I had over a hundred ghosts and It was a pain to select all the ghosts except a few which i will be using later on for removal. But yes it does a little extra by showing us the ghosted services too. Thanks for all of your significant work.

The portable devices section will probably have quite a few entries with phones, mp3 players etc. If you recognize the device or drive letter it uses, add that device only, make sure nothing else is selected for removal and try it.

The worst that can happen is the device will be re-detected when you reboot. Currently adding by class will enable all of them as will adding by device or wildcard. Is this what you mean? Also as I have suggested on their site it would be nice to be able to order the devices by clicking on the top of the columns, thereby putting the ghosted devices together, rather than have to scroll down to find them.

Dave: I think my point sort of falls inbetween your request to the developer of sorting by column or being able to right click and add by description. On a side note, tried this out on my 4. TammyTech 8 months ago. HAL Author 8 months ago. HAL Author 4 weeks ago. Nizar 2 years ago. Ed 5 years ago. HAL Author 5 years ago. Xander 5 years ago. Typical, hidden devices that are not displayed non-Plug and Play drivers, printers, and so on -and-.

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