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Tip

To find out which company created a certain driver, double-click the component’s name in the
Device Manager. In the resulting Properties dialog box, click the General tab, where you see the
name of the company, and the Driver tab, where you see the date the driver was created, the
version of the driver, and so on.

Figure 14-2. The Device Manager lists types of equipment; to see the actual model(s) in each
category, you must expand each sublist by clicking the flippy triangle.

A device that’s having problems is easy to spot, thanks to the black down-arrows and yellow
exclamation points.

You can see a disabled-driver logo ( ) on the “Floppy disk drive” entry in this illustration.

Duplicate devices

If the Device Manager displays icons for duplicate devices (for example,
two modems), then remove both of them. (To remove a device, click

Uninstall in the dialog box shown in Figure 14-3.) If you remove only one,