Controlling the Device Display
Device Manager’s default view is by hardware type, but it also offers several other views, all of which are available on the View menu:
• Devices by Connection—This view displays devices according to what they are connected to within your computer. For example, to see which devices connect to the PCI bus, on most systems you’d open the ACPI branch, and then the Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System branch, and finally the PCI Bus branch.
• Resources by Type—This view displays devices according to the hardware resources they require. Your computer’s resources are the communications channels by which devices communicate back and forth with software. There are four types: Direct Memory Access (DMA), Input/Output (IO), Interrupt ...
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