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change USB vendor id / product id

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Mar 15, 202687081 views
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Under Windows XP, is there any easy way to change or spoof the vendor- and product-id of a USB device? (changing the corresponding descriptive strings would probably be good too) Say for example there's a useful program which expects a particular device but you don't see why you should buy a new on…

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The USB vendor-id/product-id are likely to be hard-coded in the device's firmware, and might therefore be unchangeable without hacking the firmware. As most firmware is protected against changes, this is likely to brick the USB device. Sorry to be n…

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