How to get windows7 control panel device name

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Hi,

in Windows 7 Control Panel, Devices and Printers, system lists connected USB devices and naturally shows their names.

In my case I connect the device of reading of bank cards and a name of this device - USB Swipe Reader

Another, absolutely simple device - USB mouse connected to the laptop, has name Optical Mouse

Very simple question - how can I get these names in program?

I have studied some samples:

Enumerate Installed Devices Using Setup API[^]

Device Information[^]

Simple Device Manager[^]

Any doesn't show these names

In Device Manager I can see these names only as property of 'Bus reported device description'

Thanks in advance.

Posted 12-Feb-11 1:37am

Vadim Shumilin

Updated 12-Feb-11 1:56am

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2011-02-12T01:58:00

Solution 1

I believe you need to use WMI to get that info. Google is your friend.

Posted 12-Feb-11 1:58am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Feb-11 23:47pm

Looks like the best answer to me; otherwise the answer would take a whole article.
My 5, proposed as the answer.
--SA

dfdf@mail.ru · Answer 2 · 2014-02-14T23:27:00

Solution 2

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3438366/setupdigetdeviceproperty[^]

Posted 14-Feb-14 23:27pm

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