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Reset USB devices - Windows

Reset USB devices - Windows

Owned by Tech Support
Jun 27, 2023

Prerequisites:

  • You need to be able to run PowerShell as an administrator

  • You need to set your PowerShell execution policy to a permissive value or be able to bypass it:

    PS> Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Steps:

  1. Launch Windows PowerShell as an Administrator, and wait for the PS> prompt to appear

  2. Navigate within PowerShell to the directory where the script lives:

    PS> cd C:\my_path\ (enter)

  3. Execute the script:

    PS> .\restart-usb-devices.ps1 (enter)

Or: you can run the PowerShell script from the Command Prompt (cmd.exe) like this:

powershell -noexit "& ""C:\my_path\restart-usb-devices.ps1""" (enter)

Script - restart-usb-devices.ps1

$deviceName="*VID_1495&*" foreach ($dev in (Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object{$_.InstanceId -like $deviceName})) { $dev.InstanceId &"pnputil" /restart-device $dev.InstanceId }

 

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