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If I move the USB cable for my scanner from one USB socket to another then
does mean that the New hardware Wizard will launch at bootup and that it
will be necessary to re-install the driver for the scanner?
 
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Yes, and it will be named XXX scanner #2.

Peter


"Peter Davis" wrote:

> If I move the USB cable for my scanner from one USB socket to another then
> does mean that the New hardware Wizard will launch at bootup and that it
> will be necessary to re-install the driver for the scanner?
>
>
 
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Yes, I agree with Peter. It's happened to me more than once.


"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, and it will be named XXX scanner #2.
>
> Peter
>
>
> "Peter Davis" wrote:
>
>> If I move the USB cable for my scanner from one USB socket to another then
>> does mean that the New hardware Wizard will launch at bootup and that it
>> will be necessary to re-install the driver for the scanner?
>>
>>
 
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Every USB device has a unique VID ID & each USB channel will
re-enumerate the device and you'll get new instances of the same
device in Device Manager. Any previous entries of the same device
will remain in Device Manager as "Phantoms" (Detected/Known
but not currently in the active Hardware profile.

"Ô¿Ô Mws" <Mws@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
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> Yes, I agree with Peter. It's happened to me more than once.
>
>
> "Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news😀DFACD71-6D8B-45A8-9EAE-844004DD141B@microsoft.com...
>> Yes, and it will be named XXX scanner #2.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
>> "Peter Davis" wrote:
>>
>>> If I move the USB cable for my scanner from one USB socket to another
>>> then
>>> does mean that the New hardware Wizard will launch at bootup and that it
>>> will be necessary to re-install the driver for the scanner?
>>>
>>>
>
 
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

This occurs sometimes, but not always. Some devices will remove
themselves from Device Manager, but they will leave their entries in the
registry. You can manually remove these if you want, but there really
is no point.

Last note, it should not require you to manually reinstall the drivers
as it should still have the drivers and do everything for you.

----
Nathan McNulty


R. McCarty wrote:
> Every USB device has a unique VID ID & each USB channel will
> re-enumerate the device and you'll get new instances of the same
> device in Device Manager. Any previous entries of the same device
> will remain in Device Manager as "Phantoms" (Detected/Known
> but not currently in the active Hardware profile.
>
> "Ô¿Ô Mws" <Mws@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
> news:uzxpZpooEHA.2764@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>
>>Yes, I agree with Peter. It's happened to me more than once.
>>
>>
>>"Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>news😀DFACD71-6D8B-45A8-9EAE-844004DD141B@microsoft.com...
>>
>>>Yes, and it will be named XXX scanner #2.
>>>
>>>Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>"Peter Davis" wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>If I move the USB cable for my scanner from one USB socket to another
>>>>then
>>>>does mean that the New hardware Wizard will launch at bootup and that it
>>>>will be necessary to re-install the driver for the scanner?
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>
>
 
Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 13:56:42 +0100, Peter Davis <nomail@privacy.net> wrote:
>If I move the USB cable for my scanner from one USB socket to another then
>does mean that the New hardware Wizard will launch at bootup and that it
>will be necessary to re-install the driver for the scanner?

XP should recognize it in the other port and it should just install your
scanner either when you boot up, or maybe even when you unplug it then plug
it in when running.

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"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:yM15d.1807$%06.990@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> Every USB device has a unique VID ID & each USB channel will
> re-enumerate the device and you'll get new instances of the same
> device in Device Manager.

But _some_ devices also have so called "USB serial number", which
prevents this annoyance. If the manufacturer of your hardware cared to
put it in, you're lucky.

--PA

>Any previous entries of the same device
> will remain in Device Manager as "Phantoms" (Detected/Known
> but not currently in the active Hardware profile.
>
> "Ô¿Ô Mws" <Mws@SpamCop.net> wrote in message
> news:uzxpZpooEHA.2764@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Yes, I agree with Peter. It's happened to me more than once.
> >
> >
> > "Peter" <Peter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news😀DFACD71-6D8B-45A8-9EAE-844004DD141B@microsoft.com...
> >> Yes, and it will be named XXX scanner #2.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >>
> >>
> >> "Peter Davis" wrote:
> >>
> >>> If I move the USB cable for my scanner from one USB socket to another
> >>> then
> >>> does mean that the New hardware Wizard will launch at bootup and that it
> >>> will be necessary to re-install the driver for the scanner?
> >>>
> >>>
> >
>
>
 
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