Windows 8 In Depth

Managing Your Hardware with Device Manager

Windows 8 stores all its hardware data in the Registry, but it provides Device Manager to give you a graphical view of the devices on your system. To display Device Manager, you have a couple of choices:

• Press Windows Logo+W, type device, and then click Device Manager in the search results.

• Press Windows Logo+X and then click Device Manager.

Device Manager’s default display is a tree-like outline that lists various hardware types. To see the specific devices, click the plus sign (+) to the left of a device type. For example, opening the Disk Drives branch displays all the hard drives, Flash drives, and memory card slots attached to your computer, as shown in Figure 28.11.

Figure 28.11. Device ...