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The user is experiencing repeated Windows 7 driver reinstallation notifications when reconnecting their Wacom tablet to different USB ports, despite the drivers being already installed. A contributor explains that this behavior is normal for portable USB devices, as Windows temporarily loads drivers each time the device is reconnected. The original poster acknowledges this explanation and understands it as standard behavior.
CabbageTree

CabbageTree

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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 telling me, that my WIN 7 are installing the drivers of the device.

Why the hell it is installing the drivers? I use the tablet all the time. The drivers ARE installed already. But each time I plug it, it tells me that nonsense message…

Can you explain me that behaviour?

Thank you guys in advance!
 

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Jimbo22
That's because it's a portable USB device....which basically means the connection is only temporary. Once you unplug it, the connection to the system is gone along with the "temporary" driver(s). It's no different from a camera, ipod, mp3 player and so on.
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That's because it's a portable USB device....which basically means the connection is only temporary. Once you unplug it, the connection to the system is gone along with the "temporary" driver(s). It's no different from a camera, ipod, mp3 player and so on.
 

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CabbageTree

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Thank you mate — now I understand that this is standard behaviour.
 

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