plug and play

Ran into this problem after the Windows 10 Build 10586 update. My USB mouse just quit working while the optical sensor light remained on. Looking in Device Manager I noticed I had a weird entry "Custom USB Device". Expanding that revealed "USB-C to Display Adapter". Sure enough this was my...

Hi there! I use Wacom tablet for a thousand years. My computer knows my tablet more than well. It is plugged usualy to the most distant USB on computers back. Sometimes I have to plug it to the other USB. And after that (every time) there is a bubble-system-message with little animated icon...

I have a home networking system consisting of 3 computers and using a "Sky" router connected by three "TPLink" Powerline adapters (which use the house wiring system to connect the computers) The system has worked well for years. However I recently re-installed Win 7 on one computer and now...

When I use my mouse within some applications to perform a text-based Paste operation, the contents of the clipboard do not get copied into the desired location¹; before posting this I verified A) that the clipboard does have the data that's supposed to be there, and B) that the Paste operation...

PC Windows 7 64 bit .... Trying to connect a new camera (Canon G16) via USB lead into PC When I plug camera into PC ... get "USB device not recognized" when I click on error msg (Windows) shows as 'unknown device' resolution offered is that it asks me to install driver for device, which I...

I have an HP 20 All in One desk top. I use two HP Pocket Media external drives, plugged into USB. Suffice it to say that there have been many Win8 updates in the year I have had it. And changes with some other problems too. Mysterious things happen from week to week, month to month. Some have...

I'm about off my head with frustration here. I know there are a lot of others who seem to have bumped into this particular problem but I haven't found any successful answer as yet. My desktop machine has a USB hard drive, 3.5 inch in a case, with a capacity if 1tb which I use as a storage medium...

The SHORT of it: Upgraded from Windows XP to 7. When I plug the camera in, Windows Explorer "sees" it as "Canon Powershot A540" instead of "drive J:", so the Autoplay does not start. Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, or if this is in the wrong thread. If so, please point me...

As the heading says I wiped my Operating Drive on my desktop. And created a fresh Windows 7 and other software. I am having problems with one program. I had it on the previous OP before I wiped it. Although I had a little problem connecting last time. The software worked great, the software is...

Are mice and keyboards plug-and-play for laptops (automatically detected and ready to use)? Or will it require driver installation of any sort? If it helps I have a Dell laptop and will be buying a Dell keyboard and mice...

I'm having a problem getting Windows Media Player to connect with my new Archos 43 so that I can sync my playlists onto the device. When I mount my Archos 43 to My Computer, using a USB port, it is listed under 'Devices with Removable Storage' as 'A43 (M:)' and 'Removable Disk (L:)' with 'L'...

New computer - Dell Inspiron 15R laptop. Windows-7 home premium 64-bit. Trying to access internet. 7 gives connection option of Broadband where ISP requires ID and Password. However, my ISP does not require this info to log on....its just "plug-n-play" I have run every test and diagnostic...

Super noob here... I know cars but not much about computers, and next-to-no exposure to win 7, so please bear with! Bought a Toshiba a505 used, a few months old, from a lady who knows less than I about computers. Her boss, a "computer expert," messed with it, putting things like norton and...

When I first plugged in my microphone, it popped up an annoying message asking what it was. I told it that it was a microphone and that was that. The next time I plugged it in, the same window popped up, so this time I clicked "do not show this message again." Everything was fine until I...

I have Altec Lansing Speakers with no drivers that are required for its use. It is a plug and play speaker system. When I had XP my speakers worked fine. Now that I installed Windows 7 they are no longer detectable by my computer. I have spent over 4 hours trying to figure it out myself...

Two years ago I found a USB mouse with a ball the size of a play marble from an outfit in Florida. It worked out of the box on an HP laptop. It was advertised as P&P but I cannot get it to function on a Toshiba 15.6", OS Win7. There was no driver CD or anything printed other than how to turn it...

I have a 5 day old HP computer. E9220Y. I hooked up my 6mo old LG USB DVD Multi drive up to it and it workds fine. The only problem is, when I restart Windows, it hands right after the BIOS screen. It will not start. I worked for a while trying to figure out why. At first I thought a program I...

Not too sure if this is the correct place to post this. I am attempting to install a program callede PdaNet. It keeps giving me an error during the installation: updatedriverforplugandplaydevices err=0xe0000206 any ideas on what this is? not sure but it may have to do with my...

I installed the windows 7 nvidia drivers ( 190.62 ) and it works fine, except i cant change my resolution to 1680 x 1050 for my V7 R22W02 22inch LCD screen. I cant find any display drivers. It shows up as 'Generic Non-PnP Monitor' Link Removed due to 404 Error Imageshack - nvid2 I'm Clueless...

recently installed Vista Home Premium 64-bit. My Free Agent 500GB external hard drive is having problems, occurring randomly: drive not recognized on Device Manager drive recognized, but showing as empty light blinking steadily on drive light blinking crazily, turning off, turning on (this just...