There’s another place in your Windows 10 machine where the Devices and Printers link is found and the feature is called the universal Settings app. Accessing Devices and Printers from the Universal Settings App in Windows 10 If you chose to click on the “Hardware and Sound” category link, you will be taken to a Window that shows in contents and from here, you will need to click on the subcategory that says “Devices and Printers” as shown below.Īfter clicking on the subcategory, you should be able to see the Window open and display your all the devices that are attached and those that has been attached to your computer in the past as well as those that communicated with your machine through an existing network. Now, when the Control Panel launches, you will need to click on the settings category that says “Hardware and Sound”in order to launch the section where the subcategories would display or you may also click on the “View devices and printers”link under if you wish to launch the Devices and Printers Window right away. If you find it, just click on it in order open the Control Panel feature instantly as you can see being highlighted on the screenshot above. On this menu, you should be able to find the link that will launch the Control Panel Window. Since the Devices and Printerssection is found in the Control Panel, you’ll need to learn how to launch the Control Panel Window first and in Windows 10, you can do this by first pressing the Windows + X keys in order to access the WinX menu which will appear on the bottom-left portion of your computer screen as you can see on the screenshot below. For the Devices and Printerssection, here are the available ways in how you can launch it on your Windows 10 machine.įirst, we will go to the easiest method in launching this section. While most of it still looks like its predecessors, there are newer methods that are available in it for accessing certain features and system tools. Windows 10 has been around for more than a year now and its new and improved features doesn’t fail to really impress us. Accessing the Devices and Printers Section in Windows 10 Let’s start with the latest Windowsversion- Windows 10. So now that you already have an idea on what the Devices and Printers section is all about, we’re going to try accessing it in Windows 10 as well as other in older Windows OS versions like Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 in case you are still using any of these two. Fix and troubleshoot certain problems if anyįor devices that have full support, its icon should show up according to what the device is as you can see on the screenshot below where my Bluetooth headset really appears as it is while for devices that don’t have full support, it will just appear as a generic icon.Change settings and make tweaks on how it works as well as use all features of the device.View information about the device itself and share it to a network.See the current status of the devices- whether it is working good or not.The devices that have full support would allow you to do the following from the Devices and Printers section: One important thing that you need to know about the devices that are attached to your computer is that not all have full support so the information that you will see under the Devices and Printerssection would be limited for other devices. In short, it is an all-in-one place that displays them for you to configure or make tweaks on but the options and the interaction that you can do with each device largely depends on the drivers that are installed on your computer for it. In here, you will also be able to interact with these external devices which are currently connected to your Windows machine. What Exactly is the Devices and Printers Panel?ĭevices and Printers is simply a section that shows a list of all the devices (no matter what kind it is) which has been connected to your computer either through a wire or a wireless way. If you want to get more familiar with what this section actually contains or just get acquainted with the devices that are attached or those that has been connected to your machine in the past then you will need to follow the steps that we’re going to show below. Many users don’t actually know about this feature and that’s the reason why we’re going to cover it in this tutorial. In our previous tutorial, we’ve shown one of the features that will help you get even more familiar with your Windows machine through the “System Information” Window however, if you want to know what devices has been attached to your computer or even those that it communicated with before through a network then you will need to learn about the “Devices and Printers” section of the Control Panel that has been a mainstay feature in the Windows operating system for a long time now. Windows has always had a way in showing every user what it is all about.
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