Case of the missing "Add Legacy Hardware" option inside Device Manager with Windows 7 - a workaround

If you are running Windows 7 pre-beta, you might have noticed that the old 'Add Legacy Hardware' option seems to be missing. I tend to use this quite a bit whenever I need to add in a Loopback adapter or some piece of hardware that is not quite installing correctly. Plug and Play, even in 2008, isn't always 100% correct.

With that said, thankfully, you can still manually launch the 'Add Legacy Hardware' Control Panel applet by using hdwwiz.cpl.

Update: Between the time this was originally written and the official beta came out, it is now hdwwiz.exe. Pre-7000 builds used hdwwiz.cpl.

Posted by Aaron Tiensivu in 7, Microsoft, Windows OS at 20:12 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Actually, you need to run hdwwiz.EXE, not hdwwiz.CPL!

#1 Chris Smith on 2009-01-08 13:37 (Reply)

It isn't hdwwiz.cpl, its actually hdwwiz.EXE

#2 John on 2009-01-08 18:59 (Reply)

In earlier builds, it was hdwwiz.cpl.

You're probably running build 7000+ and I'll change the post to reflect the difference because this seems to be getting a lot of hits now.

#2.1 Aaron Tiensivu (Homepage) on 2009-01-08 19:59 (Reply)

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