In this article, we are going to see how to get the Hardware ID from Device Manager on a Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer. What is Hardware ID? The manufacturer of a device sets a unique ID for it.

You can find system information & hardware specs of your Windows 11/10 computer using msinfo32 tool, sysinfo tool or these free software.

Find your hardware in the list, right-click on it, and choose Update Driver. Then click Browse My Computer for Driver Software, and navigate to the file you downloaded to install it.

The WEI was introduced in Windows Vista. It provided a numerical assessment of a computer’s hardware and software performance on a scale of 1 to 10.