A very useful icon to have on your desktop, if you’re like me and use this window a lot, would be a Device Manager icon: Rather than clicking Start>Control Panel>System>”Hardware” tab>”Device Manager” button; a 5-stage operation, you could instead just click a single icon on the desktop.

Unfortunately Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, didn’t include a Device Manager desktop icon by default in XP – But fear not: You can create your own:

It’s just an icon that sits on the desktop with all the rest of them.

How to make an icon to click (Done in XP.):

Right-click on a blank area of your desktop (Where there are no icons.) and mouse-over “New” in the box that appears. Click “Shortcut”. Another box appears asking you to type the location of the item: Enter in the full command:

“%windir%\system32\devmgmt.msc”

and click next.

It now asks you to type a name for this shortcut: I named mine, strangely enough, “Device Manager”. Why? Because it’s a shortcut icon to the Device Manager – innit?.

Click next, the box vanishes, and an icon appears on your desktop. – Target neutralised.

Any time you want to call up the Device Manager, just click the icon: It really is that simple.

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