[Ham-Computers] LPT-1

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Mike,

About a month ago, Aaron posted this when someone was having problems getting 
a new video board to work.  I think the person with the problem was running 
WIN98 but Aaron says it works under XP and I've tried it and confirmed that it 
works under W2K.  As I said at the time, I don't know why it isn't set up this 
way by default, but that's MS.  It lets you see present but not installed, 
and no long present but still sorta installed, devices.  After adding the 
variable, each time you run Device Manager, you will have to click View/Show Hidden 
Devices.  Otherwise, the default is not to.

You'll need to
enable a "tweak" to show all hidden/non-present devices to make sure all
of them are gone. To do this, do the following (BTW, this also works in
WinXP)...

* Right-click "My Computer" --> Properties --> Advanced -->
Environment Variables
* Under "System Variables", click on "New"
* Variable Name: "devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices"
* Variable Value: "1"
* Click "OK" three times to close the System Properties box

Now, in the Device Manager, click on "View" --> "Show Hidden Devices".
This will now show you *ALL* of the devices that have ever been
"registered" including non-attached devices. 

Robert Downs - Houston
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