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IT Resources Management - Devices

Device Manager is a Control Panel applet in Microsoft Windows operating systems. It allows users to view and control the hardware attached to the computer. When a piece of hardware is not working, the offending hardware is highlighted for the user to deal with. The list of hardware can be sorted by various criteria.

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For each device, users can:

  • Supply device drivers

  • Enable or disable devices

  • Tell Windows to ignore malfunctioning devices

  • View other technical properties

 

Device Manager was introduced with Windows 95 and later added to Windows 2000. In NT-based versions, it is included as a Microsoft Management Console snap-in

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