removing new hardware wizard pop up

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i had an old-old computer which use to come up with the wizard detecting a
new PCI?i just let the wizard do all the looking and loading,which came up
with not being able to locate the PCI hardware,but it didnt prompt again.
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jo68


"Dan" wrote:

> When I switch on my computer I am getting a new found new hardware wizard
> even though there is no new hardware and I can't get rid of it - can anyone
> tell me what to do to permenantly remove it. Thanks Dan

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Yes, I agree with the comment of Richard U except that the solution of
installing further software could be too laborious. After having being using
XP Pro for a while with no interference, the same problem occured to me as
well. What I did was the following:
1. By means of the Task Manager I analysed which process was starting up
this hardware wizzard.
2. It was the installing software belonging to my multi-functional
printer/scanner of HP.
3. Now you my start msconfig and uncheck this process in the Startup tab,
and/or
4. Rename this same process by adding for inistance the suffix _DISABLED.
(You really don't have any use of that process for the time beeing.)
5. If you want to do it right to the end, you also could then run
Registryfix.exe (find it on the net) to clean up the shortcut as well which
should start up this particular process.


"Dan" <Dan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When I switch on my computer I am getting a new found new hardware wizard
> even though there is no new hardware and I can't get rid of it - can
> anyone
> tell me what to do to permenantly remove it. Thanks Dan