device configuration via PowerShell

[Larry__Weiss]

A while ago I asked about setting some pointer device related
configuration via PowerShell (specifically the SnapToDefaultButton
property).

My effort to allow PowerShell to assist me in doing that stalled out
at the point where I can tweak the Registry setting associated with
SnapToDefaultButton using PowerShell, but that afterwards it requires a
reboot of the workstation to get it be effective.

Setting that value via Control Panel does not require the reboot.

Now I'm wondering what Control Panel does that I'm not doing via
PowerShell. I think it must be interacting with a device driver at
some level to get it to re-read configuration.

In theory, should a PowerShell script be able to automate everything
that Control Panel does?

- Larry

 

[Marco Shaw [MVP]]

> In theory, should a PowerShell script be able to automate everything that

> Control Panel does?

Yes, I know I still haven't gotten around to trying to create a PowerShell
script for this.

In theory, one would hope that PowerShell could do everything that every UI
in Windows is capable of, but that's likely a few Windows versions away, and
depends on whether that appears to be a good time investment by Microsoft.

PowerShell often uses .NET APIs, so it depends on what that API is capable
of doing, and that won't always match up with what the similar Win32 API
and/or P/invoke is able to do (admitting that I don't really understand how
either fully works).

Marco