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Offline greyowl

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XP problem-please help.
« on: February 15, 2014, 10:46:25 PM »
I run XP.  Recently, when I start XP, I get a popup that says "Found New Hardware".  I allowed it to try to install it which is a printer, but the installation fails.  I checked the box to not try again, but it comes up every time that I start XP.  I don't have any new printers to install either.  My printer works fine.
Does anyone have any idea how I can get the New Hardware wizard to stop coming up?
Thanks for the help.
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Re: XP problem-please help.
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2014, 11:37:29 PM »
It could be anything! It's hard to say as I am not an IT Pro. I had a similar problem with my old XP computer. It kept on coming every time I turned on my computer so I bought a new Windows 7 computer.
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« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2014, 11:38:50 PM »
OK I am shooting from the hip here, but there are 2 thing that might be happening here.

1. ) Even if the printer is working fine and the program opens and all that, a driver was not totally installed.
2. ) There are remnants of an old printer program

What you can do is to uninstall your current printer program and drivers and see if the "New hardware found" window shows up again. If it does, go to My PC > properties > Hardware > Device manager > View > Show hidden devices and look for the guilty device that is given the error and remove it.

Otherwise reinstalling the printer program and drivers should remove the popup.
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Re: XP problem-please help.
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2014, 04:34:33 AM »
Thanks for the instructions.  I tried it but it doesn't seem to work.

I turned off my printer when I started the computer and I still get the "found hardware-printer" notice.
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« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2014, 05:05:22 AM »
Try this,To disable New Found Hardware; Start>Run>Services.msc>Shell Hardware Detection>Disable>Apply>Stop.

This will also disable autoplay on your CD/DVD drives.

If it works, make a new restore point.

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« Reply #5 on: February 16, 2014, 05:44:06 AM »
Try this,To disable New Found Hardware; Start>Run>Services.msc>Shell Hardware Detection>Disable>Apply>Stop.

This will also disable autoplay on your CD/DVD drives.

If it works, make a new restore point.

Thanks--I tried this but it had no effect.
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Re: XP problem-please help.
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2014, 05:51:51 AM »
It doesn't have to printer. Could be another device that is giving the problem.
Check device manager and let us know where the exclamation (!) mark or the red cross is.
A attach screenshot would really help.

What printer make/model do you have?
Is it connected through usb?
What other (usb) devices have you hooked up? (perhaps a hub)

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« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2014, 03:27:27 PM »
It doesn't have to printer. Could be another device that is giving the problem.
Check device manager and let us know where the exclamation (!) mark or the red cross is.

You are thinking like me Eddy:

... What you can do is to uninstall your current printer program and drivers and see if the "New hardware found" window shows up again. If it does, go to My PC > properties > Hardware > Device manager > View > Show hidden devices and look for the guilty device that is given the error and remove it.

My suggestion to uninstall the printer, besides it only takes 15 min to uninstall and reinstall, was to discard it from the equation.

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« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2014, 03:53:09 PM »
Sorry for the delay in responding and thanks for the help.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the printer and it didn't help.

Attached is a picture of the device manager.  There is only a red X on the network adapters for wireless because I have disabled them as I don't use wireless.
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« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2014, 04:09:24 PM »
While printer was uninstalled did the popup come out ?

Click "View" in Device manager and click "Show hidden devices". Any device with X, ?, or ! mark ?

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« Reply #10 on: February 16, 2014, 05:36:13 PM »
While printer was uninstalled did the popup come out ?

Click "View" in Device manager and click "Show hidden devices". Any device with X, ?, or ! mark ?

While the printer was uninstalled, the popup continued to come out.

There are two items in Device Manager with an !:

Under "Printers" there is "!Unknown Device" with properties that say "not configured correctly-code 1".  (Note, also under "Printer" there is my Okidata Printer that I use and it is working OK.)

Under "Mice and other pointing devices" there is Alps Touch Pad with properties that say "not working, does not have all its drivers-code 24".  I would like to get this working if you can instruct me. 
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« Reply #11 on: February 16, 2014, 06:21:42 PM »
A ! means the device has a problem, but it can work correctly anyway.

Code 1 means the evise is not configure correctly and code 24 could mean different things; It is not present. It does not work correctly, or does not have the driver installed.

The problem is to find the unknown device with code 1.

For the Alps Touch Pad you need to find the drivers for it to install it. Do you have the disc that came with the laptop ? The original drivers should be in there.

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« Reply #12 on: February 16, 2014, 07:01:43 PM »
A ! means the device has a problem, but it can work correctly anyway.

Code 1 means the evise is not configure correctly and code 24 could mean different things; It is not present. It does not work correctly, or does not have the driver installed.

The problem is to find the unknown device with code 1.

For the Alps Touch Pad you need to find the drivers for it to install it. Do you have the disc that came with the laptop ? The original drivers should be in there.

How do I find the unknown device?

I have the driver for Alps Touch Pad and ran the program again, but it still does not work.
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« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2014, 08:09:08 PM »
I got the Alps Touch Pad to work.

Just have to get rid of the other problem ie the printer.
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« Reply #14 on: February 16, 2014, 09:39:00 PM »
Well, I dealt with the problem of the unknown printer by just uninstalling it in device manager.  Now the computer is working fine.

Thank you for the help.
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