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Earl Thompson
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      4th Jul 2003
I have a Linksys Wireless PC Card Ver4 in my Dell
Inspiron 8100 that is working without any problems.
Every time that I reboot the system I get a popup about a
Linksys Wireless USB Compact Network adapter that cannot
be found and if the error message continues to appear to
reinstall the device. I have never installed this device
on this system. Where is the system finding the
information that is causing the POPUP to appear everytime
I reboot this system. It even appears when I have the
Linksys Wireless PC Card removed from the system.
 
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      4th Jul 2003
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:09:04 -0700, Earl Thompson wrote:

> I have a Linksys Wireless PC Card Ver4 in my Dell
> Inspiron 8100 that is working without any problems.
> Every time that I reboot the system I get a popup about a
> Linksys Wireless USB Compact Network adapter that cannot
> be found and if the error message continues to appear to
> reinstall the device. I have never installed this device
> on this system. Where is the system finding the
> information that is causing the POPUP to appear everytime
> I reboot this system. It even appears when I have the
> Linksys Wireless PC Card removed from the system.


Try starting in safe mode. Find the mystery device in the device manager
and remove it.
 
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Earl Thompson
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      5th Jul 2003

>-----Original Message-----
>On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:09:04 -0700, Earl Thompson wrote:
>
>> I have a Linksys Wireless PC Card Ver4 in my Dell
>> Inspiron 8100 that is working without any problems.
>> Every time that I reboot the system I get a popup

about a
>> Linksys Wireless USB Compact Network adapter that

cannot
>> be found and if the error message continues to appear

to
>> reinstall the device. I have never installed this

device
>> on this system. Where is the system finding the
>> information that is causing the POPUP to appear

everytime
>> I reboot this system. It even appears when I have the
>> Linksys Wireless PC Card removed from the system.

>
>Try starting in safe mode. Find the mystery device in

the device manager
>and remove it.
>.

I have resolved the problem. I found that this was only
happening for one user. I also have Norton Anti-Virus
2003 Professional installed. When I deleted instances of
the WPC11 NC Card Configuration Wizard It moved this
application to the Norton Protected Recycle Bin. I
decided to use the Windows system configuration Tool and
sellected the startup tab and it showed this item
starting from the C:\Recycler directory in the norton
protected section of the recycle bin. I unchecked this
to keep it from starting and it no longer is popping up
when I log on. I also deleted all instances of this from
the Protected Recycle bin. I no longer have the problem.
Thanks to those who did respond. But this device never
did show up in the device manager as it was never
installed on this computer.
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