After some pretty hard-core searching, I've settled on the fact that you simply can't by yourself. I've looked into API's, WMI, and using Sendkeys to the device manager window itself :eek: (which works, btw, but it's really tacky, and certainly not something I'm going to suggest). After all is said and done, it looks like there is a utility called "devcon" from microsoft, that can be used to do what you want (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311272). I'm quite a bit disappointed that I can't find a VB solution to this, or even a solution in another language that I could port to VB. Everything seems to rely on this tool...... good luck.

Thank you very much for your help. I tried the link, but it does not work.

Sorry about that, vBulletin assumed the trailing ) as part of the URL, but it's not: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311272

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