bizzybody Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 Is there a way I can make a shortcut directly to Device Manager?Don't tell me "It's just one more click."! It's one more layer of obfuscation, one more window to clutter the desktop, more time and worst of all, MORE ANNOYANCE to get to an essential piece of the operating system.Did MS bury it even deeper in Longhorn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taggs Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 Create a shortcut to devmgmt.msc Welcome to MSFN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzybody Posted May 9, 2005 Author Share Posted May 9, 2005 Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian873 Posted May 9, 2005 Share Posted May 9, 2005 Just for info as I know its not what you want.BUT.... I get to it from WINDOWS KEY + BREAK / HARDWARE TAB hey presto its there.hail hail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InTheWayBoy Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 I usually right-click on My Computer and then click on Manage...then on the new screen I can go to device manager or disk management or services...you get the pictures. But it's still too many clicks! The shortcut is a good idea, and here is a registry command to put it on a right-click menu for My Computer (Parallel to the Manage I just spoke of):; Add Device Manager To Right Click[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr]@="Device Manager"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\shell\DevMgr\command]@="mmc.exe %%SYSTEMDRIVE%%\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM32\\devmgmt.msc" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzybody Posted May 11, 2005 Author Share Posted May 11, 2005 That's a good one for MDGx to put on his site. How about in XP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InTheWayBoy Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 Well that is for XP...I don't think there is any easy way to get to device manager in Win9x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bizzybody Posted May 12, 2005 Author Share Posted May 12, 2005 It's not a problem in 9x. Just rightclick My Computer, click properties and it's the Device Manager tab. No having to go through that _then_ click a button which opens a _different window_.User Interface Hall of Shamehttp://www.rha.com/ui_hall_of_shame.htmMore!http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?UserInterfaceHallOfShameStill more!http://web.archive.org/web/20010420094321/...iarchitect.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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