Re: Cannot disable add new hardware wizard

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On this date, lvee extended this wisdom for the consideration
of other readers...

> Stranger things, and all, I know. I should, however,
> clarify that while doing this final procedure, I closed the
> 'Add New Hardware' wizard when it opened, not allowing it
> to run. The 'device' listed when the Add New Hardware
> wizard /did/ run was, lxbu_device.

Sounds like an Arte Johnson "very interesting, but stupid" to
me! Not you, of course, but either Windoze or your hardware
manufacturer.

My problems with hardware always stem from Windoze insisting
on installing its own driver before it will let me install the
manufacturers driver. Even then, I have trouble, and I have
trouble with things like my scanner's SCCI card conflicting
with my sound card, requiring me to remove the sound card
driver and let Windoze "recognize" it again.

But, then, what install system does an 800 pound gorilla use?
Anyone they want! Glad you got your peculiar problem fixed!

> "All Things Mopar" <useMAPSnet123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:Xns96AA54692A3A7ReplyToken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> On this date, lvee extended this wisdom for the
>> consideration of other readers...
>>
>>> I had a similar problem not too long ago. It was the most
>>> frustrating thing. Although the 'Add New Hardware' wizard
>>> started every time I blinked and the device listed was
>>> definitely my printer, a Lexmark, what showed up in
>>> Device manager was unknown device, unknown driver,
>>> unknown...blah, blah blah. After screwing around with
>>> pretty much all the same things you have listed, I
>>> finally got it solved. First, let me explain that
>>> although I had the option to have the New Hardware wizard
>>> not alert me of this new device, I chose not to do that
>>> because it was important for me to figure out the cause
>>> and not just slap a Band-Aid on it. Besides, the yellow
>>> exclamation mark in device manager was NOT acceptable.
>>> So, with my printer and all the drivers installed, I put
>>> the install cd in, started it, and after it started to
>>> install, a screen came up saying that the drivers were
>>> already installed but update was recommended, to update,
>>> press continue. I had to follow this procedure several
>>> times, and finally what it turned out to be was the ELUA
>>> had not, for some reason, registered correctly,
>>
>> I can understand the install/setup program simply refusing
>> to start if you don't "accept" their EULA, but once
>> accepted, this is the first time I've heard of software
>> /not/ installing itself correctly for that reason alone.
>> /Lots/ of reasons why installs don't work, often requiring
>> automatic or manual uninstalls, registry hacks, etc., but
>> never a EULA issue.
>>
>> EULAs are interesting animals to me. It's like buying a
>> new car and having to agree not to let anyone else drive
>> it before /you/ are allowed to start the engine and drive
>> home.
>>
>> But, that's a discussion best left for another time...
>>
>>> because after about the 4th or 5th time doing that, the
>>> 'I accept' screen came up, and after clicking that, the
>>> drivers installed, and since then, I've had no trouble.
>>> I should mention that I disabled my virus protection and
>>> firewall before I did this, just to make sure there was
>>> nothing standing in the way of the install.
>>> Also, I was , on every occasion, able to delete the
>>> 'unknown device' from device manager, but upon every
>>> reboot, it was back, as well as the new hardware wizard.
>>>
>>> <alegremente@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:1123323129.457520.230030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> .. .
>>>> Well start by saying microsoft sucks. The problem I have
>>>> been having with the add new hardware wizard has been
>>>> around for at least 4 years, and has involved multiple
>>>> version of windows and thousands of users judging from
>>>> the many results I've found doing internet searches to
>>>> fix this problem. Yet after all these years they
>>>> couldn't be bothered to add a way to disable their
>>>> unnessarily big-brother handholding worthless crap
>>>> "feature."
>>>>
>>>> Neither of the two "solutions" or "workarounds" on
>>>> microsoft's website worked.
>>>>
>>>> Trying to install the driver did not work. The driver
>>>> files MS wants are not on the printer install CD.
>>>>
>>>> Going to into the services feature and changing plug and
>>>> play from automatic to disabled did work, but it also
>>>> disabled my sound card.
>>>>
>>>> I could not disable plus and play by uninstalling it as
>>>> a windows component because it was not listed as a
>>>> component.
>>>>
>>>> Completely unstalling the printer and using the wizard
>>>> to install it does not work because the wizard fails to
>>>> install it every time.
>>>>
>>>> I guess I just need to buy an apple. If there is a way
>>>> to fix this short of this please advise.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ATM, aka Jerry
>
>
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