device manager

G'day all, If I disable or enable a com port (USB device) via the driver under device manager, the acton performs perfectly provided the port is not open. If the port is already open, I get a message that hardware has changed and that a restart is required. Why the difference, and how can I...

My SD card is not detected - no sound on insertion into the integrated card reader, invisible in File Explorer, Device Manager and Disk Management on my desktop (HP Pavilion 500, Windows 10 Home, all updates) . It works fine on my laptop however. I see 'unknown device' under 'Other devices'...

As the title suggests, I wish to disable my laptop keyboard as I use an external one because the one my laptop came with barely works at this point. For the longest time I just ended up using an external one and just pretended as if the internal one isn't even there, however the internal one...

I have implemented a method to 'hide' external USB backup drives from Windows. The process works as follows: - use Device Manager to determine the Hardware ID or Parent ID of the USB drive - label the USB drive appropriately - create a script to invoke Removedrive (freeware by Uwe Sieber) with...

Hello. I am Asus user; The mouse and keyboard do not work well after installing Windows 8.1. From Device Manager, I have no my Asus Touchpad and Keyboard drivers. Help me please. :waah::waah::dejection::dejection:

Hi guys, Some of you may have seen my other posts before. Indeed it's another issue to add to the long series of problems I've got with my Toshiba Satellite P50-C. It was my first expensive laptop, the fastest I ever got (16go ram) but it's now not really usable. So in short, it was bought...

Hi guys, A week ago my 3yo Toshiba Satellite's webcam stopped working. It's been coincident with a Windows and Skype updates which I often use with the webcam. I have tried the Windows Troubleshooting option, and also going into the Device Manager to uninstall the device, reboot and reinstall...

so today I discovered something majorly wrong with my win10 PC. I tried something simple like accessing Task Manager from the task bar only to receive the following message - " turns out I cant access anyting but the folders and the internet....any administrative function, device manager...

Dell XPS studio 8100 USB mouse and keyboard not working replaced HDD and reinstalled windows7 which has fully updated to SP1 and anything else associated. (not factory restore, but from OEM disk(as directed in dell community forum). windows installed and validated without issue been running fine...

Seems to be several opinions on this as I Google, so thought to ask you all here as well for your thoughts. Lenovo P51S with Ultradock. Two USB hard drives attached to the dock. Both set for "Quick Removal" in Device Manager. Do I need to "safely remove" these drives before hot undocking and...

Recently my laptop can't connect to wifi nteworks, there aren't any network shown and i know there are since my phone connects properly. So i checked the adapter window and there isn't a wifi adapter, only an ethernet one. I check device manager and there's only a Realtek PCIE family...

I'm a former Systems Admin. so I should be able to figure this out, but nope... so I'm asking: I bought a small, external 2.5 Toshiba HDD to use as additional storage. I put it in a case and plugged it in. No dice, I can't see it in Windows Explorer. I checked Device Manager, and it shows up as...

Specs: OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit CPU: Intel Core i7 4790k (Not OC'ed) RAM: Corsair XMS3 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory / Crucial Technology 8GB 1600 DDR3 PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2 220-G2-0750-XR 80+ GOLD HDD(s): Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM WD Black 1TB Performance Desktop Hard...

I built a new pc 2 days ago and everything is good. I was playing VR and my hole computer froze so I restarted it and it happened again after trying to launch vr so I restarted it and then it was fine. So I bring up the WMR vr portal and could not get the controllers to connect. So I bought up...

I have a custom built PC running Windows 10 Home that will not recognize my external HDD. The drive is a brand new 160gb WD Scorpio Blue, and the case is a new Sabrent EC-UASP. My other Windows 10 devices, as well as my Dell chrome book, will recognize the drive. Upon plugging the device into...

I have an MFC 8680DN. The network card "died"; it is connected to an Apple Airport Extreme and this works find for my Apple laptop. Although I can see the printer in Bonjour, that software cannot find drivers for it. I have installed the Brother Driver/Software package from their website, and...

My Toshiba notebook has a yellow triangle on the "Trusted Execution Engine interface" driver, in Device manager. The error message says it has not started, I have tried to update but it just says driver installed is the one, so, firstly what is this driver for? and will it hurt to uninstall the...

hey guys just purchased a Acer all in one running Windows 10. it's got a 120gb ssd and 1tb hard drive. now here's the problem I can't see the 1tb in my computer but I can see it in bios and device manager. how do I fix this so I can use the 1tb as storage? Thanks Sent from my SM-G930F...

Hello, I just recently bought a custom computer, and just did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit. Now I'm just looking for the correct drivers to install. Checking under the Device Manager, these are the Hardware Ids I found for the missing drivers: Ethernet Controller...

Description of System I have two laptops connected wirelessly to a Virgin Media Super HB 2.0 using the 5g wifi connection. My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 15-500isk running a fully updated Windows 10 Pro. The Control Panel/Device Manager shows no warning. My wife’s laptop is an Acer...