{"id":430,"date":"2012-05-24T20:30:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T04:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2012-05-24T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T04:30:18","slug":"view-all-device-drivers-for-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2012\/05\/24\/view-all-device-drivers-for-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"View all device drivers for removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Tony Bradley on Windowsnetworking.com article &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.windowsnetworking.com\/kbase\/WindowsTips\/WindowsXP\/UserTips\/TroubleShooting\/RemoveUnusedDriversandDevices.html\">Remove Unused Drivers and Devices<\/a>&#8221; for XP,\u00a0 maybe others<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the device physically removed from the computer, the only way to view, and thereby have access to uninstalling, the drivers is to alter <strong>Device Manager<\/strong> to <strong>Show hidden devices<\/strong>. Follow the steps below to display the hidden device information:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Right-click <strong>My Computer<\/strong> and select <strong>Properties<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click on the <strong>Advanced<\/strong> tab<\/li>\n<li>Click on <strong>Environment Variables<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Below the bottom <strong>Environment Variables<\/strong> window pane (<strong>System Variables<\/strong>), click on <strong>New<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>For <strong>Variable Name<\/strong>, enter <strong><em>devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>For <strong>Variable Value<\/strong>, enter <strong><em>1<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click OK to close <strong>Environment Variables<\/strong> and OK again to close <strong>System Properties<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Now that you have created this entry, when you open <strong>Device Manager<\/strong>, you can click on <strong>View<\/strong> and then select <strong>Show hidden devices<\/strong> from the menu. You can identify the hidden devices by their grayed-out icons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Tony Bradley on Windowsnetworking.com article &#8220;Remove Unused Drivers and Devices&#8221; for XP,\u00a0 maybe others With the device physically removed from the computer, the only way to view, and thereby have access to uninstalling, the drivers is to alter Device Manager to Show hidden devices. Follow the steps below to display the hidden device information: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}