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Windows Device Manager only shows the devices that are connected to the computer and so if we want to remove an old device not more connected we should before connect it and then we could remove it. Remove the old devices now unused is really important to have a clean computer. nella macchina. If we don't have more a device we will not find it anymore in the list but we can use some command to remove it. We have to start the Prompt cmd.exe as administrator and we can use these commands: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 start devmgmt.msc In the window that will be opened in the Device Manager we have to enable the viewing of the hidden devices. Only now we will have a list of every installed device and we can choose which of them remove. To automate this, I created a script that will...

If you see that the space on your hard disk decreases abnormally do not worry, this is due to Shadow Copy . Shadow Copy is a feature introduced with Windows XP SP1 and allows the creation of manual or automatic backup copies and in Windows Vista and Windows 7 is used by its backup utility, System Restore and Previous Version; By default, the space used by Shadow Copy is 15% of the hard drive on Windows Vista and 5% of the hard drive on Windows 7; this means that for example, under Vista, on a hard disk of 300 Gb Shadow Copy can come to occupy about 40 Gb . Windows give us the possibility to manage this space with some simple command. We can check the space occupied by Shadow Copy with this command: vssadmin list shadowstorage /for=c We can resize the space available for Shadow Copy with...