Show "Bus reportet device description" as device name in device manager window.

Question

Hello.
We are using Windows 10. Is it possible to show in device manager window a "Bus reportet device description" stored in USB device insteed a device name supplied by windows driver without change Registry or other Windows files?
Thanks.

Answer 1

You cannot rename items in Device Manager. The only way to change the name there would be to modify the device information which you said you couldn't do.

Note that you might be able to get closer to what you want by changing the default view of Device Manager. Under the View menu change to Devices by Container and see if it shows you the bus reported name better.

Answer 2

@Michael Taylor
Thank you for response.
We don't need to rename items. The "Bus reported device description" is to see in the device information if check it by Device Manager.
We only need the Device Manager use it insteed of name supplied by Windows driver.

I.e. hier https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/usbcon/automatic-installation-of-winusb in "How to change the device description for a WinUSB device" is described this possibility:
"To uniquely identify and differentiate the device in Device Manager, Windows 8 provides a new property on a device class that instructs the system to give precedence to the device description reported by the device (in its iProduct string descriptor) over the description in the INF. The "USBDevice" class defined in Windows 8 sets this property."
We are using Windows USB generic driver and don't wish the customer need to install other USB driver as he already use.

Answer 3

Hello EfimMonjak

I can recommend the working script proposed in the next TechNet article with the same query:

Reference: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/d164feb6-0f6d-4e5a-97cd-044b2b4d6770/how-do-i-retreive-a-usb-quotbus-reported-device-descriptionquot?forum=vbgeneral

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Answer 4

@Limitless Technology
Hello LimitlessTechnology-2700,

unfortunately it was a bit other querry.
We have a device with CDC USB protocoll. Windows 10 recognizes it and uses generic USB driver to create virtual COM port. It works. All we need is the user see Device Manager >> Ports (COM & LPT) >> customname (COMxx) insteed Device Manager >> Ports (COM & LPT) >> USB Serial Device (COMxx).
But do it without change on customer PC ( INF file, registry and so on).
The customname is a device iProduct string descriptor. It is received from device and we can see it as "Bus reportet device description".

Answer 5

You can change devices names by program with SetupDiSetDeviceRegistryProperty, as Administrator
I had posted a sample in C# with a test on my Graphic card name in this thread