Installing the driver using devcon and pnputil

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After installing my driver, the virtual device should be created (Win 10).

When I install the driver in the first way:

devcon install INFfile HardwareID

everything is fine, the installation is successful, the virtual device is created, I can see it in the device manager.

But when I use the other way:

pnputil /add-driver INFfile /install

the installation is successful, but the device is not created.

I want to use pnputil utility because devcon is deprecated. What could be the problem?

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As stated on the Microsoft Learn website, you should first run the devgen command:

devgen /add /bus ROOT /hardwareid HardwareID
pnputil /add-driver INFfile /install