Before diving into the details, I faced a funny thing that my wireless keyboard is a toaster in Windows 8. First, I thought that is keyboard drivers are correct? However, My wireless keyboard was working fine. Then, I thought that why Microsoft have a toaster icon in the devices? Well, this is a reason that I start writing about this topic.
Wireless Keyboard is a Toaster in Windows 8
Microsoft provides a toaster icon in their sample DeviceInfo XML Data. You can find <DeviceIconFile>Toaster.ico</DeviceIconFile> in their example data on the link given in below section. Specifically, I found that hardware manufacturer who does not update their own driver icon, Windows will show toaster icon instead. Further, there are chances that such device vendors pick the example data and leave the icon section as default.
Toaster Sample Driver in Windows
Thus, The link below have the information that is part of the device metadata package, Microsoft provided the Toaster sample driver with toaster icon. To illustrate the topic, here is the Sample DeviceInfo XML Data for your reference.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<DeviceInfo xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/DeviceMetadata/DeviceInfo/2007/11/">
<DeviceCategoryList>
<DeviceCategory>Other</DeviceCategory>
</DeviceCategoryList>
<ModelName>Toaster</ModelName>
<DeviceDescription1>Device Metadata Package Sample for WDK Toaster</DeviceDescription1>
<Manufacturer>Fabrikam, Inc.</Manufacturer>
<DeviceIconFile>Toaster.ico</DeviceIconFile>
</DeviceInfo>Wireless Keyboard is a Toaster in Windows 8 – Conclusion
Finally, When windows think that any device is a toaster. Then, we can say that it is because the device vendor does not update device drivers icon. Now, if your device is working fine, you do not need to worry about the device drivers as vendor forget to change the default toaster icon in sample device info XML file.
