On Thu, 29 May 2014 17:43:17 -0400, AlDrake wrote:

Can anyone shed some light on windows 7 tool that alerts connecting to
a USB3 can achieve faster access. I get this sometimes even when I am
connecting a USB3 device but win7 doesn't agree. Can this utility be
accessed to check connections? So far the only way I can tell is viewing
the speed of files being transferred.

Al.

It's apparently installed by the driver installation for your PCIe card.
At least that's how I got it.

I have a directory C:\VIA_XHCI with usb3Monitor.exe in it. It's started
at boot time.

OK, that's out of date. My newer card has installed that program in

C:\Program Files\via xhci uasp utility\usb3monitor.exe

It's initiated in

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

I guess I'll remove the first folder from the root since it's not called
any more.

My guess is that if you disable the above startup command, you won't do
any damage. Use Autoruns to do it safely; you can reinstate it easily
from there if it creates a problem.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)