If you are like and have the drivers in different folders, another thing you can do is search for keywords as well. IE, for our drivers our folder hierarchy looks like this
Model
Chipset
Driver
Ethernet
Drivers
Etc
If shortening the hardware ID doesn't work, you can always type in the name of the folder instead (uncheck the populate by ID). So I would just type in the model name and it will show me everything that's under that and i can manually assign the driver.
If you want to skip HII completely, you can use copydrivers, pnputil, and a powershell script to do the same thing for you.