Windows Device Manager Enable/Disable

[Francois]

Is there an (elegant) way to enable or disable windows devices (in the device manager) from Girder?

I have an AccessDTV card with buggy drivers which prevent me from shutting down the PC while the drivers are enabled (A common problem with this hardware under XP:evil:).

I plan on automatically enabling the drivers each time the PC boots up (i.e. when girder opens), and to disable them just before shutting down (or alternatively when the ADTV application opens/closes)... as this approach seems to work (manually...)

Is there a plug-in or a girder command that would enable/disable devices (It is probably possible to send some keyboard commands to do so, but this may not be as robust, etc.)?

Thanks

[vynce]

There might be a registry key somewhere that you could turn on and off with the registry plugin. You could use one of those registry tracking programs to track any changes made to the registry when you enable/disable your device.

[perf]

Francois,

Did you get anywhere on this? I have a similar problem.

/Per

[Francois]

Per,

Sorry, I was able to solve my problem by changing the PCI slot of my HDTV card, and by assigning IRQs manually, so I never pushed the Girder automation solution very far

Eiffel