Found new hardware wizard - every time I load up

Turtles · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:04

I get this every time I start my PC, I've had it since I changed over to Vista 64 but I've never got round to asking you about it till now

Any ideas how to stop this coming up? No matter what option I choose - it will always appear!

Ucof · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:09

Do you have all the driver CDs installed? Motherboard and expansion cards are most likely to be the culprit.

Download Driver Detective or similar, then find out what you are missing, then download it from the manufactures site, install it.

Does Device Manager just see it as "Unknown Device"?

Paul11 · 15 Mar 2009 at 15:10

have a look in your device manager at any items that have a yellow mark next to them (ie without drivers) and disable them.

Turtles · 15 Mar 2009 at 16:41

Ucof said:
Do you have all the driver CDs installed? Motherboard and expansion cards are most likely to be the culprit.

Download Driver Detective or similar, then find out what you are missing, then download it from the manufactures site, install it.

Does Device Manager just see it as "Unknown Device"?

Yeah, Device Manager sees it as "Unknown Device". It is under the Windows Sideshow bit - does that have any significance?

I'll have a look at Driver Detective.

Paul11 said:
have a look in your device manager at any items that have a yellow mark next to them (ie without drivers) and disable them.

It sees it in device manager as unknown device, it is under the heading Windows Sideshow as I mentioned above. Anyone know what this is for and if it's fine just to disable it?

Turtles · 15 Mar 2009 at 16:51

According to Driver Detective I have 22 out of date drivers :s

Is there a free version which will update them for me, as with the free trial I got it doesn't update them - just tells you what's out of date

Paul11 · 15 Mar 2009 at 16:52

Turtles said:
It sees it in device manager as unknown device, it is under the heading Windows Sideshow as I mentioned above. Anyone know what this is for and if it's fine just to disable it?

windows sideshow is a vista thing for using two screens (i believe)

i cant see that it will hurt to disable it (assuming your only using one monitor)

just try and see..

Turtles · 15 Mar 2009 at 17:06

Paul11 said:
windows sideshow is a vista thing for using two screens (i believe)

it cant see that it will hurt to disable it (assuming your only using one monitor)

just try and see..

Yeah that seemed to stop it popping up.

Cheers