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Device and Driver Installation Advanced Topics

Device Identification and Properties

Device Identification

Device Identification Strings

Container ID

How Container IDs are Generated

Container IDs Generated from a Bus-Specific Unique ID

Container IDs for USB Devices

How USB Devices are Assigned Container IDs

Using ACPI to Configure USB Ports on a Computer

Best Practices for Supporting Container IDs on USB Devices

Container IDs for USB Devices

This section discusses how Container IDs for Universal Serial Bus (USB) devices are generated, and includes the following topics:

How USB Devices are Assigned Container IDs

Using ACPI to Configure USB Ports on a Computer

Best Practices for Supporting Container IDs on USB Devices

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