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Device Manager Duplicate drivers
Name: Lorna Date: November 25, 2001 at 07:18:22 Pacific
Comment:
I have a strange situation. Under Device Manager-Sound,Video,Game Controllers: I have "Microsoft Sidewinder Precision2" listed twice! There are no exclamation or question marks, no conflicts under properties, and the joystick works fine! When I try to remove one of the duplicate drivers it somehow re-intalls itself. How can I get rid of one of them? I am running WinMe, AMD Cpu 1,3 megs and 256 Megs of Ram.
Name: Trev Date: November 25, 2001 at 10:08:03 Pacific
Reply:
Why bother?
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Response Number 2
Name: newgrl Date: November 25, 2001 at 10:24:34 Pacific
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I used to have an external modem on a P60 running windows 95 that absolutely insisted on being in device manager twice. If I removed one instance, the modem wouldn't work. If I removed both instances and attempted to reinstall the modem drivers... it would reinsert both entries.
If all is working well... don't worry about it.
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Response Number 3
Name: Dianna Date: November 25, 2001 at 10:27:15 Pacific
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I'm not an expert, so maybe you should wait until someone else posts, but if I have duplicates in device manager, I remove both of them and then let windows reinstall one when it restarts. If you have 2 and you only remove 1, it will still add one back. There are a couple of categories you shouldn't mess with, like the hard disk controllers, is one I think, but I don't know about the one you're talking about removing. I don't think it would hurt to remove the duplicates. I always remove ghost drivers in safe mode, as well. Hope this helps.
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