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POWin32 API function to programmatically enable/disable device
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    copied!<p>I am writing a small C# app to disable a device (my laptop touchpad) whenever another mouse device is detected, and enable the touchpad again if a mouse is not detected. I am not even able to disable the touchpad in device manager (it is running on the default mouse class driver). </p> <p>I am getting into device driver development so I thought maybe I could write a little filter driver that would just accept IOCTLs to enable and disable passing mouse event messages up the device stack, and get messages from user mode via a raw PDO. However, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1430798/raw-pdo-to-send-ioctl-to-upper-filter-driver-kbfiltr-moufiltr-to-enable-disable">I asked that question</a> and somebody has suggested that I can do this in usermode via the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791137.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>SetupDi..</em></a> functions. That would be really good, because this raw PDO communication method is a PITA to work with.</p> <p>I have only used <em>SetupDiGetClassDevs</em> before, and there are so many of them, can someone with more experience with this part of the Win32 API just tell me quickly what one I should call to stop/disable a mouse device or its interface or if there is something somewhere in the dark corners of the framework that will do this (maybe in WMI?).</p> <p><strong>Update (24/9/09)</strong> I figured out how to do this with a filter driver and posted how I did it on <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1430798/raw-pdo-to-send-ioctl-to-upper-filter-driver-kbfiltr-moufiltr-to-enable-disable">my original question</a>. I still want to know if it is possible to enable or disable devices directly from Win32 and if so, how - so I will leave this question open.</p>
 

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