SPDRP_LOCATION_INFORMATION in Vista differs from XP

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Hi all!

I have a coclass installer for a USB driver that works in XP and
Vista. The device has a generic name in the INF file and I want to
rename it by setting its' friendly name to a more proper one.

I can get the USB device name in XP with
SetupDiGetDeviceRegistryProperty(...) and using
SPDRP_LOCATION_INFORMATION as parameter. I get a nice device name as a
result. This has changed in Vista and in Vista I get as the name of
the device Port_#000x.Hub_#000y.

I don't know if this is a fix for a bug or change in intended behavior
in Vista - anyway I would like to get the device name for my coclass
installer in Vista too. Is this possible by other means?

Thanks in advance!



Regards,

Johan Paul

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