usb port

I have a HP MINI netbook, and earlier (admittedly while watching TV, and paying very little attention) tried putting headphones in and managed to miss and put them in the USB port. The screen flickered and is now a mint green, and it won't switch off fully, and the screen stays green whenever i...

I want to simply change the port on an installed printer. Currently it's set to a local usb port - I want to change it to \\Desk1\hp4050pcl. It's funny because I have both the pcl and ps versions installed locally, but when I try to add a new printer over the network I get an error message...

I have a LAN with 2 laptops and one desktop connected. The desktop has an HP Photosmart D7160 connected via a USB port. Both laptops have had Windows 7 installed for several months. The desktop was recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 7. After the upgrade, one of the laptops will still...

I have a custom app which is written in C#, and its basic job is to talk to USB port, send/receive data from an external device. This works fine with Vista but not with win7. Application refuses to launch/crashes soon after. Are there any API changes to Win7 which would cause this kind of...

I have a 2TB Seagate hard drive that keeps dropping out in Windows 7. I use it as my main backup drive and when writing to it using either of the two backup apps I use the drive usually "disconnects" and I have to switch it off and on again to use it. I've tried using a different USB port and...

A funny thing happened, for various reasons such as 2 or 3 updates would not install they always failed. I had to do a repair install on my W7 64 bit. My internal card reader would never work except to the USB port, the various flash card slots never worked. I always had a failure in device...

hi, i have a Thomson TG782T modem from bigpond with a usb connection on the side. i can access the drive connected to it from both my xp pro boxes, but not my win7 64bit. i get the following when entering the given address: 'windows cannot access \\192.168.1.253.' message. diagnose says...

Dear all, I have a desktop pc running windows 7 ultimate, i hosted a software raid 1 by diskpart, I don't know why i am not able to transfer file to portable harddrive/usb flash drive, It just show calculating for long long time, sometime even handed However, i tried to clone a harddisk image...

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TrueCrypt is used in my flashdrive. Whenever I plug in my flashdrive into a USB port, it automatically prompts TrueCrypt. That is with Windows XP. But the flash drive does not prompt TrueCrypt with Windows 7. It seems that the scritp for autorun.inf must be modifed for Windows 7. I wonder...

i installed windows 7 and immediately had problems. after spending literally days worth of time on the phone to Microsoft support my original problem remains,they can't fix it. but my latest problem,which they can't fix either is my computer no longer recognizes my external hard drive through...

Ok, so I bought a no name internal universal card reader for my computer when I was building it. When I first installed it everything worked fine and it could read all of my cards. Now the activity light is constantly on and the only slot on the card reader that works is the usb port. I...