Windows 10 April Update 1803: My IODD 2541 is not anymore detected

[mr m]

And, please don't use 3rd party tools to fix USB problems...

Open the System applet in the control panel, click advanced system settings to get the system properties window, go to the Advanced Tab, click the Environment Variables button at the bottom. Create a new system environment variable named DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES and set it to a value of 1.

Then launch Device Manager, go to the view menu, and enable show hidden devices. Windows will now list each and ever stupid driver installed but not actually being used at the time. You can go through all those hives and cleanly uninstall every ghosted icon. This includes busted shadow copies by the way, which can pile up if you're using any sort of real backup.

Thanks for this forgotten tidbit.

 

[Sky-Knight]

Thanks for this forgotten tidbit.

Actually, it should be simply forgotten again. The view hidden devices option does what we need without the environment variable as of Windows 7. I need to update my brain.

 

[glennd]

Actually, it should be simply forgotten again. The view hidden devices option does what we need without the environment variable as of Windows 7. I need to update my brain.

well i do actually see more entries on my win 7 box using that registry switch. View Hidden Devices doesn't show non-present devices normally so the switch is actually doing what it says.

 

[GTP]

well i do actually see more entries on my win 7 box using that registry switch. View Hidden Devices doesn't show non-present devices normally so the switch is actually doing what it says.

Yeah I saw that too. tried it yesterday after reading the post.