JSI Tip 4628. How do I manage devices via a command line?

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 311272 contains the following summary:

The DevCon utility is a command line utility that acts asan alternative to Device Manager. Using DevCon, you can enable, disable,restart, update, remove, and query individual devices or groups of devices.DevCon provides information that is relevant to the developer and is notavailable in Device Manager.

You can use DevCon with Windows 2000 andWindows XP. You cannot use Devcon with Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, orWindows Millennium Edition.