Hardware Reference
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Figure 10.25
USB devices reported by Windows XP's System Tools utility
to set parameters or alter the system configuration. A notable exception to this
is the System utility (available from the Windows Control Panel) where the
Device Manager can be used to change some Resource settings (e.g. the IRQ
channel of the parallel port).
Windows System Tools
The Windows System Tools utility can be used to provide detailed information
about the configuration of a system. Typical examples of using System Tools
in control and data acquisition applications are that of reporting IRQ channel
information (see Figure 10.24) and providing information on the installed USB
devices (see Figure 10.25).
