Windows 8 Support

[Sstever47050]

Hi,

Firstly I would like to thank you for this contribution. I have been using if for some time to clean from Win 7.

I have now upgraded to windows 8 and I am finding that is not compatible. Is there any quick script updates that can be made to adjust for this?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[kevinoid]

You're welcome. I'm afraid I have no idea, since I don't have access to a system running Windows 8. Since the script just invokes devcon.exe, the trick is finding a copy of devcon for Windows 8. There is likely one in the WDK for Windows 8, but I am not certain.

I'm curious if GhostBuster, which was brought up in #5, might work for your uses cases. I'm considering directing users to that software in the future.

[Sstever47050]

Thanks for the quick response! I believe it may be in the script. I say this because I am using it to remove hidden USB drivers for mobile phones. I was originally using the attached bat to remove them, but I found that it left the Apple drivers. That is when I found your script and began using it to remove all drivers including the Apple. This was on a Win 7 environment. I have now went to Win 8 and when I call your script it removes nothing, however, when I use the attached batch it is still removes all of the non-Apple drivers. This leads me to believe that the devcon file is compatible, but the script may need some modification.

Best regards,

Steven Russo

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Skype: Sstever47050

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You're welcome. I'm afraid I have no idea, since I don't have access to a system running Windows 8. Since the script just invokes devcon.exe, the trick is finding a copy of devcon for Windows 8. There is likely one in the WDK for Windows 8 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/hh852362.aspx , but I am not certain.

I'm curious if GhostBuster http://ghostbuster.codeplex.com/ , which was brought up in #5 #5 , might work for your uses cases. I'm considering directing users to that software in the future.

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[zzeroo]

Hi,
looks like M$ publish the devcon source code for free. Look here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/DevCon-Sample-4e95d71c

I've absolute no glue about the MS-LPL License, but if we're lucky we can distribute a devcon binary with the scripts, for win8++ I mean.

[kevinoid]

Wow, that's a great find! That's a much more promising option than relying on the unspecified (and apparently somewhat volatile) output format of devcon. Thanks @zzeroo!

Also, any thoughts about whether GhostBuster is a viable alternative? I wouldn't mind re-implementing the script based on the devcon code, but I'd rather avoid the effort if there is already a workable solution. Thanks again!