Finding new hardware on laptop.

Alanstrainor

This is a problem i've been having for a year and a half, ever since i first turned on my dell 6400 running windows media center edition. Whenever i connect a usb device be it a memory stick or a mouse, my pc insists on installing the new hardware with the "found new hardware" wizard. But it doesn't just do it once, for example i just plugged in a 1gig usb memory stick, and it asked me to install it as a usb mass storage device, that was fare enough and it did that, then it decides to see it as a virtual drive.....etc, and all sorts of stuff, i end up spending 5 or 10 minutes waiting for it to install a stupid memory key. Any ideas of what's going on or how to fix it? thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Alan,
(sorry i went on a bit of a rant there)

BrendanD

Sounds like the usb drivers are corrupt try this
create a system restore point , go to control panel , system , device manager , delete all usb drivers and reboot , windows should reinstall all the usb drivers hopefully only once.
If this does not work use system restore to get back to where you were.

Alanstrainor wrote: »

This is a problem i've been having for a year and a half, ever since i first turned on my dell 6400 running windows media center edition. Whenever i connect a usb device be it a memory stick or a mouse, my pc insists on installing the new hardware with the "found new hardware" wizard. But it doesn't just do it once, for example i just plugged in a 1gig usb memory stick, and it asked me to install it as a usb mass storage device, that was fare enough and it did that, then it decides to see it as a virtual drive.....etc, and all sorts of stuff, i end up spending 5 or 10 minutes waiting for it to install a stupid memory key. Any ideas of what's going on or how to fix it? thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Alan,
(sorry i went on a bit of a rant there)

Alanstrainor

Thanks a lot Brendan, the problems are sorted.
Cheers:D,
Alan,

BrendanD

Glad it worked for you,dont forget to set a new sys restore point now