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I can't begin the develop of my 'Device Manager' because I don't know exactly what it must to do.

I understand that I need to have a list of all the devices connected to the computer, but, how can I detect which devices are connected?

Where can I get good information about this subject?

Thank you,

pepito

You need to try to load all the drivers, and the drivers need to do the detection. If the device does not exist, it kill it self, but if it does, then it stays in the OS.
Devices connected to PCI are detected, by detecting which devices are connected to the PCI. Devices part of the EISA bus are undetecteble-the only way is to use the BIOS memory data.
Anton.