Re: Stop New Hardware Probing

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Hi,

While in the Device Manager - Choose View and select Show Hidden Devices. Go to the device group in question and uninstall the entries for your device(s). Now choose Action and Scan for Hardware Changes.

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP/DTS&XP)

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"Jay" <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uNkwLQsvIHA.5096@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 25.05.2008 07:02, C.Joseph S. Drayton wrote:

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Jay wrote:

XP-Pro SP1

I just installed a new Logitech Keyboard/Mouse combo - USB with the
dongle plugged into the back of the computer.

May be a coincidence but every few minutes, the system probes for new
hardware, I'm supposing USB connections. A small icon appears in the
system tray whilst this occurs and then disappears. Hard to describe
the icon but is dark-green and about the same size as the systray
icon to "safely remove hardware". Clicking this icon does nothing.
Interrupts the system while typing and sometimes loses characters as
typed.

Like I said, may be a coincidence with the Logitech install as this
never happened previously.

Any idea how to disable this function?

Thanks, Jay

Hi Jay,

I would go to the <Control Panel> and click on 'Settings'. When that
window opens, I would go to the 'Hardware' tab then click on the
[Device Manager] Button. Next expand the trees and look for any device
that shows a yellow triangle with an exclamation '!' mark in it.

That is the easiest way to find out which device 'thinks' it needs to
load drivers.


In XP-Pro SP1 it's not "settings" but rather "system" but at any rate,
no exclamation points. I'll have to take a closer look at loaded
programs to see which one is the culprit by disabling one at a time to
see when the polling stops.


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