How to identify a USB device given its VID and PID

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In the Windows Device Manager, I can look up the VID and PID of each USB device connected to my system. What is a good way to look up the vendor of the device using this information?

My motivation is that I want to deploy an application to my users that will identify all USB devices connected to their systems.

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For now, it will be sufficient if I can look up this data on the web, but it would be nice if there were some automated way of looking up the vendor for each device on a list. – Vivian River

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It's just one of those things you have to keep an updated list on, although having slightly outdated information wouldn't be terrible, since the most popular vendors have been around forever. Here's one source you could use that appears to be regularly updated.

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Try this source it is what I use and it seems to be always up to date and very easy to use pcidatabase and it is an online search so you don't have to look through a list of numbers.