• Find Drivers Through Hardware Id Spoofer Number

Open up device manager by right clicking on Computer (or My Computer pre-Win7) and go down to “Manage”.-Click on “Device Manager” through the Computer Management Window.-An alternate way to get to device manager would be right clicking on Computer, going to properties, clicking on the hardware tab, and going to device manager.

Customers ask from time to time how they can pull down driver files that they see on the Windows Update site individually without the need to use the Windows Update Agent internally within Windows. This can be done using the Windows Update Catalog site located here:You can use the site to pull down not only driver files on Windows Update but individual hotfixes as well. For drivers, I have found that there are two methods that are effective.

The first is to try to use the manufacturer and model name of the device that you’re looking for. This works a good amount of the time but it will depend on how the driver is actually listed on the Windows Update Catalog as to whether or not you would get a good result. For example, a co-worker of mine was looking for a driver recently for his Belkin wireless NIC. Unfortunately, they didn’t have the device name so searching for this by manufacturer yields the following result:As you can see from the screencap (hopefully), there are hundreds of drivers listed for Belkin wireless devices. So, what’s a better way to narrow this down? Use the PNP ID for the device.

You can find this in the WindowsINFsetupapi.dev.log on Windows Vista and Windows 7 based installations. In this case, the PNP ID was prefixed with USBVID050D&PID945A.

So, searching for this, we get the following:So, this narrows the results from hundreds to tens, and we can further eliminate devices based on the OS we’re looking to find information about. Many people don’t even know about the Download Center, let alone that you can utilize the PNP IDs of devices to find the drivers for those devices.Well now you know-Joseph.

The policy setting 'Turn off Windows Update device driver searching' description states:'This policy specifies whether Windows searches Windows Update for device drivers when no local drivers for a device are present.' Ok, but if drivers.are.

Find Drivers Through Hardware Id Spoofer Number

present, they can/will be updated even if this setting is enabled. No?Also in the description: 'NOTE: This setting is replaced by 'Specify Driver Source Search Order' in 'Administrative Templates/System/Device Installation' on newer versions of Windows.' So if one has a video card and the very recent reference driver from AMD/Nvidia only has a two-part hardware Id match for it, it is possible that WU could replace the driver with something older, and possibly less functional, no matter what Group Policy settings are in place. Is that a 'good thing'?.