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Re:What actually happens when you plug in a USB device? (2007) by kabdib on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @07:45PM (#7913586)
... and then, on Windows, you get to the Plug-and-Play stack, and horrible, eldritch things happen, many of which involve registry entries.

Also, when I found that "SetupApi" was The Way you got to USB devices on Windows, I wanted to strangle somebody.

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Re:What actually happens when you plug in a USB device? (2007) by derefr on Thursday June 19, 2014 @02:53AM (#7914781)
> many of which involve registry entries

You say this like it's a Windows-specific thing. In Linux, a lot of the USB support is exposed through /sys—pretty much the same idea.

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Re:What actually happens when you plug in a USB device? (2007) by gioele on Thursday June 19, 2014 @09:22AM (#7915881)
Aren't, in this case, the window registry entries involved are more similar to udev rules?
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