On 11/18/2015 04:48 AM, Eternal Hope wrote:


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Here's the question

When you plug a USB device into Windows 8.1 Windows usually tries to
'install software' presumably some kind of default driver.

If this happened in this case could the default driver, whatever that
may be be 'blocking' attempts to install the new software?

If I look under Control Panel - Device Manager - Human Interface
Devices I can see a number of unhelpfully named devices. I right click a
device and view properties. In Properties - Details there is a drop
down list with a whole bunch of properties in it. What I'm trying to do
is find whatever was installed by default and remove it so I can try the
supplied install routine again.

Is this a reasonable approach, how can I identify which device to
remove, am I looking in the right place ?

TIA

LSF





First off...what kind of device is this "gizmo"?


Second: When Windows tries to install a device and finds no drivers,
it's pretty easy to spot because they will have a question mark when
viewed in the control panel.

If the device is not plugged it, you may have to take the option to show
hidden devices......or plug the device in so you can see which items to
uninstall/delete




http://www.thewindowsclub.com/show-n...evices-windows