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Name: HukedOnFonixWerx4Mee
Date: December 28, 2002 at 17:55:30 Pacific
OS: W2K
CPU/Ram: 1.2 ghz AMD 1024 SDRAM
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I have an unknown device showing up in Device Manager that says it's on the USB Printing Support. Not sure I get it- The printer's up and running and all my peripherals are good and accounted for. I did find something that said to disable onboard sound in the BIOS to possibly eliminate an unknown device but, 1) That's already been done 'cuz of a sound card conflict I had when I ran WinME and 2) What would that have to do with the USB Printing Support? Any ideas out there as to what else I could look for?



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Response Number 1
Name: Buster65
Date: December 28, 2002 at 21:09:18 Pacific
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Delete it from the device manager and reboot to see what it will find.


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Response Number 2
Name: HukedOnFonixWerx4Mee
Date: December 29, 2002 at 14:52:15 Pacific
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Thanks Buster65...That was simple enough. Windows didn't pick up anything on the reboot but I guess it's still a curiosity issue. What WAS it? Does W2K pick up phantom devices? : ) Never saw that in 98 or ME...



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Response Number 3
Name: Kurt
Date: December 30, 2002 at 11:09:45 Pacific
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Win2k will most definatly will pick up ghost devices.

In Win9X/ME if you booted into safe mode, it would show you ghost devices. Microsoft dropped that in Win2K and XP.

If you want to see ghost devices in Win2K and XP, create a batch file and drop the following text into it.


Set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
start %systemroot%\system32\devmgmt.msc

Now run the batch file. it will bring up Device Manager. Click on the "View" button and select "Show Hidden Devices". You will now see al the ghost devices.


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Response Number 4
Name: HukedOnFonixWerx4Mee
Date: December 30, 2002 at 22:07:35 Pacific
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Hey Kurt- Hope you're still following this (I see it's getting way down the list)- That sounds easy enough to do... except for the fact that I'm about half computer illiterate! :-/ I'll have to ask you what is, and how do you create, a batch file? Is that a text file you change the extension on?


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Response Number 5
Name: Kurt
Date: December 31, 2002 at 08:10:54 Pacific
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Hi HukedOnFonixWerx4Mee. That's exactly right. Just create a text file and name it anything you like with a .bat extention. then just open the file with notepad and drop the text I posted in it. save it and run it.


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Response Number 6
Name: HukedOnFonixWerx4Mee
Date: December 31, 2002 at 23:38:18 Pacific
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Thanks Kurt! I must be easily amused...I'd already deleted the driver so running the bat file didn't show anything, but at least I know how to create a bat file now. #89,734 out of 9,826,988 things I need to know about all this crap! : - 0


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