plug and play

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...

Vista 32-bit Host connected direct to an HP printer - works fine. Win7 64-bit laptop connected direct to same HP printer - works fine. Win7 64-bit laptop printing via Vista 32-bit host - no go. I've tried installing the 64-bit driver on the 32-bit Vista machine. I've also tried...

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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 just upgraded to Win7 from Vista. My CPU's are constantly 100% running svcHost.exe - DcomLaunch (PlugAndPlay?). Looked at various tips to no avail. Following tips did not help: Link Removed - Invalid URL DComLaunch and WmiPrvSE.exe, DComLaunch and WmiPrvSE.exe makes CPU running high - Vista...

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...

For the rest of the story (and the intro), see: Link Removed and its linked topic... I thought the title wasn't appropriate to the content so I'm starting yet another topic on the matter. So, today my laptop has entered a new realm of instability. The "infection" (NOT literal... figurative) is...

I always charge my cell phone from my computer and something i just realized is that my Motorola W450 is plug and play within Windows 7 it even recognized my Memory card without a hick-up which I think is pretty cool if this was XP I'd have to hunt the drivers down download them install them and...

I have a new HP DV5, the OS is Windows 7 with Vitual XP. I have Dictaphone installed that requires the use of a USB foot pedal. The Foot pedal is plug and play and does not come with software. Windows 7 recognizes the foot pedal and installs. This device does not show in Virtual XP any where. On...

The max resolution I can get my Dell D630 to display is 1200x800. I would like to be able to the full 1440x900. It has a Nvidia Quadra NVS135 - running 185.2 vista drivers from laptopvideo2go. Ive also tried the 181.7 drivers for windows 7 to no avail. I've tried earlier versions as well. The...

I have two optical drives, a Sony CD-RW CRX320EE ATA CD-RW drive, and a Samsung (TSST) CDDVDW SH-223F DVD-RW drive. The Sony is a bit old, but the Samsung is brand-new. Both worked fine under Vista. Neither manufacturer supplies downloadable drivers for these, since they're plug and play, and...

hello ive been having extreme ammounts of trouble with getting flash drives mice and sd cards to work and i have no idea why. also if it helps im running a dell inspiron 1501 specifics: every time i plug in a pnp device i get that message about installing a driver which i apparently need a cd for