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Device Class GUIDs for Common Hardware

System-defined device classes have corresponding GUID values

By Tim Fisher Tim Fisher Senior Vice President & Group General Manager, Tech & Sustainability Emporia State University Tim Fisher has more than 30 years' of professional technology experience. He's been writing about tech for more than two decades and serves as the VP and General Manager of Lifewire. lifewire's editorial guidelines Updated on January 26, 2022 Tweet Share Email Tweet Share Email Accessories & Hardware The Quick Guide to Webcams Keyboards & Mice Monitors Cards HDD & SSD Printers & Scanners Raspberry Pi Outside of device driver programming, knowing the Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) for a hardware device class is useful when tracking down driver information in the Windows Registry. For example, the solution to several Device Manager error codes includes removing specific registry values from registry keys named after a device's GUID. Michael Bodmann / E+ / Getty Images This is not a complete list, and not all Windows versions use every GUID in this table. Several less common system-defined device classes exist. Also, devices can generate unique classes based on variables, which makes it impossible to list them all. Common Device Class GUIDs Class GUID Device Description Battery 72631E54-78A4-11D0-BCF7-00AA00B7B32A UPSs and other battery devices Biometric 53D29EF7-377C-4D14-864B-EB3A85769359 Biometric-based devices Bluetooth E0CBF06C-CD8B-4647-BB8A-263B43F0F974 Bluetooth devices Camera CA3E7AB9-B4C3-4AE6-8251-579EF933890F Camera devices CDROM 4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives DiskDrive 4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Hard drives Display 4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Video adapters Extension E2F84CE7-8EFA-411C-AA69-97454CA4CB57 Devices requiring customizations FDC 4D36E969-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Floppy controllers FloppyDisk 4D36E980-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Floppy drives HDC 4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Hard drive controllers HIDClass 745A17A0-74D3-11D0-B6FE-00A0C90F57DA Some USB devices 1394 6BDD1FC1-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F IEEE 1394 host controller Image 6BDD1FC6-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F Cameras and scanners Infrared 6BDD1FC5-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F Infrared devices Keyboard 4D36E96B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Keyboards MediumChanger CE5939AE-EBDE-11D0-B181-0000F8753EC4 SCSI media changer devices MTD 4D36E970-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Memory devices (e.g., flash memory cards) Modem 4D36E96D-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Modems Monitor 4D36E96E-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Monitors Mouse 4D36E96F-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Mice and pointing devices Multifunction 4D36E971-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Combo cards (e.g., PCMCIA modem) Media 4D36E96C-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Audio and video devices MultiportSerial 50906CB8-BA12-11D1-BF5d-0000F805F530 Multiport serial cards Net 4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Network adapters NetClient 4D36E973-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Network and/or print providers NetService 4D36E974-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002be10318 Servers Ports 4D36E978-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Serial and parallel ports Printer 4D36E979-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 Printers PNPPrinters 4658EE7E-F050-11D1-B6BD-00C04FA372A7 SCSI/1394-enumerated printers Processor 50127DC3-0F36-415E-A6CC-4CB3BE910B65 Processor types SCSIAdapter 4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 SCSI and RAID controllers Securitydevices D94EE5D8-D189-4994-83D2-F68D7D41B0E6 Trusted Platform Module chips Sensor 5175D334-C371-4806-B3BA-71FD53C9258D Sensor and location devices SmartCardReader 50DD5230-BA8A-11D1-BF5D-0000F805F530 Smart card readers Volume 71A27CDD-812A-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F Storage volumes System 4D36E97D-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318 System buses, bridges, etc. TapeDrive 6D807884-7D21-11CF-801C-08002BE10318 Tape drives USB 36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000 USB host controllers and hubs USBDevice 88BAE032-5A81-49f0-BC3D-A4FF138216D6 USB devices that don't belong to another class WPD EEC5AD98-8080-425F-922A-DABF3DE3F69A WPD devices Was this page helpful? 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