When it comes to solving our computer problems on our own, many times we will have to access the device manager.
And although there are many tutorials on the Internet for this, in many cases they assume that you already know how to access the device manager, an essential tool to verify and solve any inconvenience found on our devices.
That is why in this tutorial we will focus on teaching you widely what this is and what we can do with its use. Also as an important point how to access it in every possible way.
What are we going to be able to find and what will we be able to find and what “Device Manager” in Windows 7?
In the device manager we can see all the internal and external hardware of our computer, therefore when some device is presenting recognition problems, whether it is a pendrive, a webcam, among others , This can be diagnosed and also solved from this menu.
In addition, when a controller or adapter of some of these devices that are interacting with our computer begins to fail, it can be diagnosed by this means. We will even find updates, how to uninstall and install them.
Here we can see the properties of all the devices that make up and interact with it and we can assign more or less capacity to each of these.
When we buy one or more parts or components to repower our computer and these are not of the same brand as the originals, compatibility problems may be generated, and through the device manager we can fix it. As you can see it is an essential menu to handle, whether you are a developer or you are not.
Steps to access the Windows 7 device manager
Next we will show you the best ways to find and open the device manager without many complications.
Open with computer administration
In a very simple way we can enter this by means of the administration of equipment, we just have to click on the “Start” button, just in the lower left corner of the screen and then in the side menu right of the displayed bar, where it says “My Computer” we will right click and select the option “Administration”, which will take us right to this one.
- In the left side menu, we will find the option “Device management”.
Enter with System Properties
This second way to reach the device manager is a bit simpler, we just have to enter the “Start” menu and in the options panel on the right there will be the option “My PC”, right in the center, there we will right click and select the last option from the list which will be accounPropiedades†.
- This will open a new panel of options in which, in the upper left corner and first among the options will be “Device Manager”.
Using the Quick Search bar
Without a doubt, the fastest way to access a location or file on your computer will always be through the quick search bar. We just have to click on the “Start” button on the bottom left, and at the bottom of the menu will be the search bar, there we will have to type “Administration of devices ” and in an instant we will get the results and we can access without problems.
Access with Control Panel
Natively from the control panel you can access all the interfaces of the configuration, and in this case there is no exception, since entering this, which is located just below “My Computer” in the start menu, we can get where we want. Then, we enter the “Start” menu from the Windows button on the lower left and then on “Control Panel.”
- Then in the new screen among the options we will select “Hardware and sound”.
- Among these we will find one that says “Devices and printers” and right next to the latter, will be “Device Manager”.
- If we want to do it even faster we just have to change the display from “Categories” to “Big icons”, by clicking where it says “See by ” located in the upper right of the screen, and we will find directly on the main screen of the control panel the “ Device Manager ”.
Enter via Execute
- To access this you only need to enter “Start” and in the left panel in the list of all programs we will find a tab called “Accessories” we deploy it and there it will be running.
- We can also facilitate the process by pressing Windows + R, since these commands appear on the screen immediately. Once this is done, we will write the following code “devmgmt.msc” (without quotes) to access automatically.
Enter using the command prompt or CMD span >
The next and last way to access the device administrator will be through the command prompt. To access it we can do it from the start menu, in the “Accessories” tab, located in the list of “All programs”.
In the same way we can press Windows + R to open the run and immediately type “CMD” (without quotes), to finish press “Accept” to open the system code.
Once we are at the command prompt, we can put the following code can devmgmt.msc ” (without quotes) and press enter, to automatically enter the administrator of devices.