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DevCon HwIDs

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PnPUtil ships with every release of Windows and makes use of the most reliable and secure APIs available. We recommend using PnPUtil instead of DevCon. See the Recommended replacement below and Replacing DevCon for more information.

Displays the hardware IDs, compatible IDs, and device instance IDs of the specified devices.

devcon hwids {* | ID [ID ...] | =class [ID [ID ...]]}

Parameters

*

Represents all devices on the computer.

ID

Specifies one or more devices by using an identifier.

Type all or part of a hardware ID, compatible ID, or device instance ID of a device. When specifying multiple IDs, type a space between each ID. IDs that include an ampersand character (&) must be enclosed in quotation marks.

The following special characters modify the ID parameter.

Character Description
* Matches any character or no character. Use the wildcard character (*) to create an ID pattern, for example, disk.
@ Indicates a device instance ID, for example, @ROOT\FTDISK\0000.
'
(single quote)		 Matches the string literally (exactly as it appears). Precede a string with a single quote to indicate that an asterisk is part of the ID name and is not a wildcard character, for example, '*PNP0600, where *PNP0600 (including the asterisk) is the hardware ID.

=<class>

Specifies one or more devices by using a setup class.

Type all or part of the name of the setup class of the devices. The equal sign (=) identifies the string as a class name.

You can also specify hardware IDs, compatible IDs, device instance IDs, or ID patterns following the class name. Type a space between each ID or pattern. DevCon finds devices in the class that match the specified IDs.

pnputil /enum-devices /deviceids

For more recommended replacements, see Replacing DevCon.

Comments

To create a hardware ID for a root-enumerated device, use the DevCon SetHwID command.

Sample usage

devcon hwids *
devcon hwids acpi* *port*
devcon hwids =usb

Examples