In this case, the peripheral wont be visible in unit Manager.

Running scans for detecting hardware changes can also resolve driver-related issues and hardware conflicts.

This is how you’re able to scan for hardware changes on your Windows PC.

Hardware and devices connected to a PC

It’s recommended to do that for devices showing exclamation marks.

The exclamation mark highlights theres an issue with the equipment, which selectingScan for hardware changescould fix.

you could also select theScan for hardware devicesoption to reinstall a rig driver.

The Scan for hardware changes option

Then selectScan for hardware devicesas outlined above.

PnPUtil is a driver management command-line tool for adding and removing equipment drivers.

The scanning probably wont take long.

The Scan for hardware changes context menu option

shut the Command Prompt when you see the Scan complete message.

Such a shortcut will enable you to execute the scan devices command directly from the desktop without entering it.

These are the steps forcreating a command desktop shortcutthat scans for hardware changes.

The Attempt to remove the driver for this device checkbox

you’ve got the option to now scan for hardware changes with the desktop shortcut whenever needed.

Double-clicking the Scan for hardware changes shortcut will launch the scan-devices command.

The Computer Management tool

The scan-devices command

The New > Shortcut options

The Create Shortcut wizard

The Run as administrator checkbox