Lists any devices on your system that capture video or images. Earlier versions of Windows listed this category as Hard disk controllers.ĭisplays any IEEE 1394 controllers on your system. Included in Microsoft Windows 2000 and later, this category displays each of the ATA or ATAPI controllers currently detected on the motherboard. For example, game controllers and USB devices may be listed in this category. Included in Microsoft Windows 2000 and later, this category is the replacement for the earlier CD-ROM category and displays all CD and DVD drives currently detected or installed by Windows.ĭisplays each of the floppy disk drive controllers detected on the motherboard.ĭisplays each of the floppy disk drives currently installed in the computer.ĭisplays any HID devices currently detected by Windows. Later versions of Microsoft Windows renamed this category to DVD/CD-ROM drives to help accommodate all the new CD and DVD drives.ĭisplays each of the hard disk drives installed in the computer.ĭisplays each of the video cards detected in your system. It should not be necessary for you to make any changes directly to your computer in this listing, and you can safely leave this category alone.ĭisplays detected CD-ROM drives in the computer.
This category lists your entire computer as a single device.
Other batteries, such as a CMOS battery, may be under System devices. This category only displays ACPI compliant batteries that power computers. Examples include microphone jacks, internal computer speakers, and USB audio devices.ĭisplays any batteries detected by Windows. Lists all input and output audio devices.
You can then double-click a specific device to view its properties, status, and driver information.īelow is a listing of the device categories with a description of each. Doing so expands that category, listing all its devices. To find a specific device, click the arrow next to its icon and category, as shown in the image at the right. The Device Manager window divides all the devices on your computer into categories.
Computers running macOS do not have the Device Manager utility, but instead have the System Information utility, which is similar to Device Manager.