Automatic Plug and Play detection

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In news:eVdK2bbQFHA.508@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
John Doe <no@no.com> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> I just recently did a vanilla install of Windows XP Professional on
> an IBM X40. I have noticed that no USB or PCMCIA devices are
> automatically beginning assigned drivers. If I go into device
> manager and update the driver on the device it installs fine but it
> is not doing this automatically. I checked the plug and play service
> it is started. Does anyone no if I am missing a particular patch????
>
> Gil
> Guildry@hotmail.com

Probably not. Head to the Windows Update site and download all the available
updates. I've had to manually install them in the past for USB for no known
reason either and yet, on other installs, it's installed the USB 1.1 and 2.0
ports just fine. One thing to check is if you know you have some 2.0 ports
then you should see "Enhanced" listed in there. Other than that so long as
they're listed now you should be all set as long as you do your updates (at
least the critical ones at any rate) though you might want to check for
additional hardware updates and the like both at Microsoft and your various
vendors.

Galen
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