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DevCon Find

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Note

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.

Finds all devices that are currently attached to the computer. Displays the device instance ID and device description.

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

Parameters

*

Represents all devices on the computer.

ID

Specifies 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 the device 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

For more recommended replacements, see Replacing DevCon.

Comments

You can use the DevCon Find operation to find devices that are not currently attached to the computer by specifying the full device instance ID of the device instead of a hardware ID or ID pattern. Specifying the full device instance ID overrides the restriction on the DevCon Find operation that limits it to attached devices.

The DevCon Find operation with a single class argument is the same as the DevCon ListClass operation.

To find all devices, including those that are not currently attached to the computer, use the DevCon FindAll operation.

Sample usage

devcon find *
devcon find =media *pnp*
devcon find @*hub*

Examples