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All in one Windows driver installer for Adafruit's boards.
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[Bug] Device naming in Windows device manager #15

Closed tryallthethings closed 3 years ago

tryallthethings commented 5 years ago

Hello!

I just installed the latest available version of your USB drivers (2.3.3.0) on my Windows 8.1 machine with a Adafruit Hallowing connected. This is what the device manager is showing now:

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I suppose this isn't the expected device naming. Apart from the name the driver seems to work fine.

Regards, Stefan

ladyada commented 5 years ago

i think its ok - probably a windows 8 thing cause the string is properly picked up when you use 7 or 10 - we did a little string macro thing :)

@roots, did it happen before or is this new?

tryallthethings commented 5 years ago

I installed the drivers today for the first time. But to double-check I tried 2.3.1.0 just now. Same issue here as well.

dhalbert commented 5 years ago

I have seen this naming issue in Windows 10 as well (when the driver was installed and it wasn't supposed to be), but not in Windows 7. I think it's some kind of string expansion bug that surface in Win8 and later, but it doesn't seem to affect the functioning of the driver. I tried a few fixes and ultimately didn't feel it was worth the time to try to fix.

tryallthethings commented 5 years ago

If it's too much effort to fix I would suggest adding a warning or information to the installation or download page so less tech-savvy users aren't confused by the naming.

dhalbert commented 5 years ago

Good idea, I'll put something on the appropriate Learn Guide page.

dhalbert commented 3 years ago

Closing this as cosmetic.