Re: How to make rescan for new hardware

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From: Andrew (universalkludge_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/05/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:20:10 -0800

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 259697
HOWTO: Force Reenumeration of a Device Tree From an Application
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q259/6/97.ASP

"siedem" <psiodemak@aiut.com.pl> wrote in message
news:#n8EFwy6DHA.2760@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> I'm writting an installator for usb modem (W2k, C++). I can install it and
> uninstall.
> For installing i'm using UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices. But after
> uninstall i can't install drivers again until i do hardware rescan or plug
> out and plug in device. So my question is: how to make rescan for new
> hardware programatically with API functions?
>
> thanks in advance
> P
>
>

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