Programmatically enabling/disabling hardware device

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[.NET] How do I disable a system device?
Win32 API function to programatically enable/disable device

Is there a way, in C#, to programmatically disable and re-enable a device? I'm looking for essentially the same functionality that occurs when you go into device manager and right click on a device and disable or enable it. How can I do this in C#?

It's a double of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/252185/net-how-do-i-disable-a-system-device — Abel, Aug 16 '10 at 22:56

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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Take a look at net-how-do-i-disable-a-system-device.

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You meant to comment this as a double, right? ;) – Abel Aug 16 '10 at 22:56
That looks a lot like it's just using handles to windows to do this and it doesn't appear to work anywhere like Vista, 7 or 2008 R2. Interesting though. – Keith Adler Aug 16 '10 at 22:57
@Abel - yeah, well at least I have done so now! – Will A Aug 16 '10 at 23:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 16 '10 at 23:08

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According to this link: http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answers/513855-can-i-use-wmi-c-disable-enable-device

You need to interface with CfgMgr32 (Win32 API) to do this.

My first thought was to look at WMI but it's not there.

DevCon, which comes with the Device Drive Toolkit, provides a CLI to do this.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff541193(VS.85).aspx

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I had no luck with the devcon tool. – William Morrison Mar 23 '15 at 15:00
Thank you, devcon works! What's your issue William Morrison? – Jun 12 '15 at 15:22

Programmatically enabling/disabling hardware device

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