Device Manager

Device Manager in Windows 7 or Windows Vista

1. Click "Start" and type the following in the "Search programs and files" text box:

Device manager

2. You will see the "Device Manager" item listed in the menu, click on it to launch the "Device Manager" window.

3. Generally, we launch the device manager to check if a particular device on the computer is working fine (here we can check whether the device drivers are properly installed or not).

E.g. If we have to check whether any Imaging Device (e.g. scanners, cameras etc) connected to the computer is working fine or not; we will locate the “Imaging Devices” item on the “Device Manager” window and then expand the list to check the devices listed.

To check the functionality of any Imaging device, you should double click on that device item and to the properties window for that device.

Here I have added a screen shot of the device manager window on my computer which shows the inbuilt web-cam on my computer listed under “Imaging Devices” window on the “Device Manager” window.