device management

Odd issue here: I have two Win7 laptops and a Logitec bluetooth mouse. When I pair it to Laptop 1, it works fine as long as I don't ever connect it to Laptop 2. (On rare occasions it will become unrecognized even if I don't pair it with the other laptop. While that behavior may be related to...

I am running Windows 7, and I connect several external HDDs via a USB hub, leading to the PC on a single USB cable. I have recently installed Windows, and from the start, I have had problems ejecting the media. Here is how it goes: I plug in the disks, they are all functioning, they show up and...

Every time I insert my SD card, this annoying error pops up on my screen. I never have removed my SD card while files were being written to it, and yet I continue to get this message. So I've tried scanning the SD card for any incomplete files and it always turns up with no results. Why does...

I remember back when Windows 7 first came out and I got to try out the beta running into my first and much more important driver problem - my (rather ancient C-media) soundcard just would not work and I couldn't get drivers for it for Windows 7 at that time. Somewhere along the way I came...

When i go to the Control Panel and select "Devices and Printers", a green progress bar begins to fill the address field from the left. It never reaches the end, and I don't see my devices and printers. Any hints? Regards Tore Berg [email protected]

My computer froze so I was forced to shutdown by holding the button for 8 seconds. When I started the computer I got a boot error, I thought great!! I have had a similar problem before so I figured partition table might be broken. I took the drive and plugged it into an enclosure to a Windows...

Link Removed due to 404 Error is my laptop's page. L655D-S5102 is my exact model. Win7 Home Premium 64 Bit. Bluetooth devices: Kensington Model 33348 iomega Model gbu221wm I tried to install the Kensington first but win7 reported not finding all the drivers (although Kensington...

Hi :), I'm having a real hard time networking two Windows 7 computers properly. I have the main computer running Win 7 Ultimate 64bit and the second one is Win 7 home premium 64bit. I have two nic cards in the main computer. One hooked up to a cable modem and one hooked up to a router. The...

I'm running Widows 7 64 Bit Pro. I go to the control panel and then I select Printers and devices. There are 3 printers in there that I have had. I got a new printer and I added the new printer and made it the default printer. Well there is still those other 2 printers that are gone now...

So i don't exactly know if this is the right forum to post this but does disabling a device actually save energy? For example, i have two CD-ROM players, if i disable one of them do i actually have any advantege in doing so?

my dvd player on my acer aspire laptop does not respond to any new dvds when I want to play them. I then went to devices under hardware and selected the CD/DVD device and then get this message."Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is...

Hi, i've currently disabled the autoplay to no action for all the options set in the autoplay options in control panel however whenever i connect a external storage like external hd thats split into 3 or 4 partitions i get 4 pop up options on what i want to do & its really annoying. Is there...

Hi all, I'm having a problem that seems to be shared by many other users based on the number of forum threads i've come accross related to this topic. I'll describe it in some detail to avoid the usual advice which hasn't worked so far so please bear with me. I am unable to move files onto...

I'm having a problem with my external hard drive and I cannot find an answer in other threads. Sometimes the device is recognized and I'll be able to accesss it for a couple minutes and then my computer stops recognizing it and then a couple seconds later, it recognizes it again. Now it's to...

How do i get windows 7 to NOT install automatic drivers ? I am getting ready to do a clean install of windows 7, but i want to install my own drivers ! How do i make this possible ?

Hi All... Hoping that someone can help with this problem that started for me yesterday..!! All AM time I was logged in and surfing the internet going to all the usual pages Etc.. Lunch time comes, so I decide to go downstairs and eat and so, while making lunch I decided that my laptop needeed...

I've completely run out of ideas. I have an HD3200 graphics integrated with the Gigabyte MA780G-UD3H motherboard, and what looks like Realtek audio. It currently glares the text in the sound panel, "Not plugged in." Well, yes, it is. I've tried everything. Reinstalling the drivers, rolling back...

I have a number of new Window 7 laptops and have joined the company domain with no problems (SBS running Windows 2003). When I was on the domain I set up a number of printers by browsing the server \mainserver\\OkiC9650 and finding the printer and it and correctly installs the drivers and...

When I use a pen drive and click the safely remove icon the message never comes up that it is safe to remove the hardware. It used to work but now doesn't. I am using windows 7 64 bits

Hi all, for days i could not get the microphone on my headset running, i finally took some time aside to today to get it right, with strange results. first of no program did recognize my headsets microphone. from the w7 sound options to skype . w7 only listed sound-blaster devices, no matter...