This section focuses on some common administrative tasks about Hardware  that are performed locally or remotely from a command prompt. The commands in this post concern how to Add and Remove hw device.  

 

 

q  We begin with how to add a driver for a new hardware device.  

 

 1.    Copy the driver to a folder at %homedrive%<driver folder>.

2. At a command prompt, type: 

              

              pnputil -i -a %homedrive%<driver folder><driver>.inf

 q  How to remove a driver for a hardware device. 

 

 

1.    For a list of loaded drivers, at a command prompt, type: 

 

 

              sc query type= driver

 

 

 

2.    At the command prompt, type: 

 

              sc delete <service_name>