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Re: Powershell to do "devcon /rescan"

From "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject Re: Powershell to do "devcon /rescan"
Date 2025-02-07 04:22 -0800
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <vo4ttq$3g7ia$3@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 25/02/07 03:31 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
> How could I make Windows 10 to re-scan (re-detect) all USB devices using
> Powershell? Or ... maybe pnputils?
> 
> I used devcon.exe back then, but it seemed it's no longer quite
> supported now. :)
> 
> Some USB devices (possibly badly-written drivers) might sometimes be
> dropped by Windows 10, and hence my need for devcom.exe!

You could instead use Nirsoft's USBDView:

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

-- 
John C.

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Powershell to do "devcon /rescan" "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 19:31 +0800
  Re: Powershell to do "devcon /rescan" "John C." <r9jmg0@yahoo.com> - 2025-02-07 04:22 -0800
    Re: Powershell to do "devcon /rescan" "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 21:10 +0800
      Re: Powershell to do "devcon /rescan" Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-07 15:36 +0000
        Re: Powershell to do "devcon /rescan" Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-02-07 15:56 +0000
          Re: Powershell to do "devcon /rescan" "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2025-02-10 22:30 +0800

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