Find device by Hardware ID in Device Manager?

Is there a way to search through the Windows 10 Device Manager, e.g. by Hardware ID? (Or is there another tool that can do this?)

I know (part of) the Hardware ID of a device I have, e.g. it starts with "USB\VID_1C88". My suspicion is that this device is causing trouble, so I want to uninstall all drivers associated with it.

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There are websites, I've listed at the bottom, that archive H/W ID's so that COULD provide insight as well as an app. nirsoft DevManView & USBDeview can do this under a column called 'Instance ID'. Apparently USBDeview can show historical devices that are disconnected as well. I don't know nirsoft, his tools are just my go to :)

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I used a tool called Hardware Identify . It lists all installed hardware devices on the computer and displays information about each device. You could check the device name by Hardware ID like this below:

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There is a nice little tool from Microsoft that lets you list all devices calledDevcon (Device Console). In combination with Powershell it is quite easy to identify devices e.g.

 devcon64.exe hwids * | Select-String "YOUR HARDWARE ID" -Context 5

Devcon is available as portable app on Chocolatey

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