Creating a shortcut for device manager is dead simple. When you open device Manager on Windows, the Operating System doesn’t allow to add a shortcut to the desktop or pin it to the taskbar. If you’re wondering, here are the most common ways of accessing the Device Manager on Windows 10: press start, type device manager, select the best match displayed in the results or right click on This PC on desktop and choose Manage and select Device Manager or you can open device manager by typing devmgmt.msc command in the Run dialog.
Except for the Run dialog method, the other two ways mentioned are too long or require a lot of steps, how about creating a shortcut for device Manager when you use it more often? Here is how that can be done easily without much hassle.
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Create a Shortcut to Device Manager on desktop in Windows
1. Right click on on desktop, New > Shortcut
2. Type devmgmt.msc, click Next
3. Give name for the Shortcut as Device Manager, click ‘Finish’, done.
Whenever you need to open Device Manager, click on the shortcut we created just now, simple!.
When to use the device manager shortcut?
As said above, you can use whenever needed.
There are times when you need to troubleshoot issues with hardware component. For instance, if Windows is showing error for network icon in the notification area, you may want to fix the issue by opening device manager and scanning for hardware changes for network adapter as it was showing the yellow exclamation mark.
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