Mar 27, 2009 · Subject: [ntdev] Devcon 32 vs 64 While doing some driver testing on 64-bit Windows 7, I noticed that the 32-bit "devcon" binary was unable to restart my driver. Queries all seemed to work fine, but "restart" failed. That problem has a trivial solution, of course (use the 64-bit devcon binary), but it made me wonder why. In my experience, most

Sep 09, 2014 · However, when I try to the same, I get the message 'devcon failed' with no further elaboration. I provided following commands but none of them works. devcon install "C:\Program Files (x86)\Molecular Imaging\MI\Application\Drivers\pixci_win7x64\epixxcw6.inf" "PCI\VEN_165A&DEV_EB01&CC_FF00" or after installing through device manager I ended up using DevCon.exe, a command-line tool for managing Windows devices, in a batch script that called DevCon to disable devices by hardware ID. I got the hardware ID by using Microsoft ConfigMgr (SCCM) and using Hardware Explorer to look at the hardware that SCCM had inventoried on each machine, then search by "touchscreen" and "pen". The problem I'm facing is as follows: I have a device connected to a USB port of a laptop and control this device with Labview. The device shuts itself off when it encounters errors that are prescribed by the device manufacturors; in this case, it is a water bob, that when it sinks (thereby physical Dec 15, 2009 · Devcon is a command line utility that allows you to programmatically perform functions such as detecting enabling, disabling, removing, restarting, and querying devices attached to your computer (any devices, not just USB devices). You can find out what devices are currently recognized as being connected to your computer, and you can target DevCon uses the standard ExitWindowsEx function to reboot. If the user has open files on the computer or a program will not close, the system does not reboot until the user has responded to system prompts to close the files or end the process. For more information about ExitWindowsEx, see the Microsoft Windows SDK. "devcon.exe restart * ftdi *" "devcon.exe disable * ftdi *" are fails while in hung state – datacompboy Dec 22 '12 at 8:50 The bad news is that the FTDI-based devices are the most reliable ones on the market! - devices based on the PL2303 (and/or their chipset vendor's drivers) are severely broken. – marko Dec 23 '12 at 1:29

How to fix “Disable failed” in python using devcon I have this code below which works fine, but i have something missing because to disable or enable a device I get . USB\VID_1050&PID_0407\7&17183861&0&4 :

Sep 09, 2014 · However, when I try to the same, I get the message 'devcon failed' with no further elaboration. I provided following commands but none of them works. devcon install "C:\Program Files (x86)\Molecular Imaging\MI\Application\Drivers\pixci_win7x64\epixxcw6.inf" "PCI\VEN_165A&DEV_EB01&CC_FF00" or after installing through device manager I ended up using DevCon.exe, a command-line tool for managing Windows devices, in a batch script that called DevCon to disable devices by hardware ID. I got the hardware ID by using Microsoft ConfigMgr (SCCM) and using Hardware Explorer to look at the hardware that SCCM had inventoried on each machine, then search by "touchscreen" and "pen". The problem I'm facing is as follows: I have a device connected to a USB port of a laptop and control this device with Labview. The device shuts itself off when it encounters errors that are prescribed by the device manufacturors; in this case, it is a water bob, that when it sinks (thereby physical Dec 15, 2009 · Devcon is a command line utility that allows you to programmatically perform functions such as detecting enabling, disabling, removing, restarting, and querying devices attached to your computer (any devices, not just USB devices). You can find out what devices are currently recognized as being connected to your computer, and you can target

I found the devcon.exe tool in the Windows Kits available from MS, which I call using the system executable wrapper vi, but the enable, disable, and restart functions, which might be used to achieve the resetting of the communication, fail when my communication is in the hung state.

@devcon remove root\mcamvusb @devcon install mcamvusb.inf root\mcamvusb But when running as administrator the .bat file, just the command prompt opens and closes without doing more. If I copy/paste the files to system32 directory and run the .bat file from direcory "C:\Windows\System32" everything is Ok.