Customer would like to extract VC80 Windows OS device serial number from registry for MDM. This article provides a way to retrieve VC80 device serial number from registry using Registry Editor or WMIC tool. Resolution / Answer. For VC80s, the device serial number is recorded in VCControl Panel System Info. Please suggest a solution to configure virtual com port over USB 2 type A so that the software may communicate with the device through USB port. Note that device manager does not show any USB-to-serial devices even with variable 'devmgrshownonpresentdevices=1'. Open USB thumbdrive with registry key dump in Exporer: Double-click on registry key dump file to open it in the Notepad (won't open if it wasn't saved with.txt extension): Find 'DigitalProductId'=. Registry value, select it using your mouse or SHIFT + arrow keys and the copy it to the clipboard.
2) Open regedit.exe and go to the location HKEYLOCALMACHINE HARDWARE DEVICEMAP SERIALCOMM. On the right-hand side there should be a list of COM ports that matches the list seen in Device Manager. On the left-hand side is the device name assigned to the COM port.
Forensicating USB devices can be a arduous task, as such I am going to break it down into byte (get it) size chunks.
In order to get the Serial number from a USB device we must start our investigation on the System Hive. Navigate to the following Key
Usb Serial Adapter
SYSTEMCurrentControlSetEnumUSBSTOR
This key will display all of the USB devices plugged into the machine regardless of user. The serial number will be a sub-key of the Device Class ID
Here you can see two USB Devices have been installed on this machine, a Seagate FreeAgent device and a Generic device (Generic device is not that uncommon, the Serial number will help you to track the USB device through the artefacts).
Find Usb Serial Number In Registry
Both of these devices have a unique serial from their respective manufacturers. This can be seen by the &0 or &1 at the end of the serial number. If instead the second character is an & then the device does not have a unique serial number and Windows has issued one which is unique to the local system only.