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Microsoft's sample code for driver development is for a hypothetical toaster bus[0]. I'm guessing someone built their real driver off the samples and either forgot to find an appropriate icon or left in a UUID which is associated with that icon in Windows.

[0]http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Toaster-7d256...

Sorry, my question wasn't very clear. I get that the driver icon came from the Microsoft's example driver code. My question was why MS chose to use a toaster as their example.

Of course, there is always the possibility that these things are chosen just out of pure chance / randomness. But often there's more history to the decision than that.

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