Printing Information About Devices and Drivers

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To get a printed report about your system, choose Print from the View menu in Device Manager. In the Print dialog box, choose one of the following options:

• System Summary
• Selected Class Or Device
• All Devices And System Summary

If you choose the Selected Class Or Device option, Device Manager provides information about only one device or device class (depending on what you selected before you issued the Print command). If you choose System Summary, you get a report with the following headings:

• System Summary
• Disk Drive Info
• IRQ Summary
• DMA Usage Summary
• Memory Summary
• IO Port Summary

The System Summary heading indicates which version of Windows 2000 you're using, the name and type of your computer, the registered licensee of the operating system, the date and source of your computer's Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), the amount of memory installed, and assorted similar details. The disk drive section of the report provides physical details about each installed drive. The remainder of the report details resource assignments. This report can be invaluable if you're working with non_Plug and Play devices and need to manage resource assignments yourself.

The All Devices And System Summary report can easily run to 30 or more pages and provides exhaustive detail about each device on your system, along with all the information contained in the System Summary report. In addition to the driver information shown in the Driver File Details dialog box (see Figure 25-4), the report includes file size information about each driver (but not the file date).