Any way to disable Plug n' Play?

[Ed]

I bought an old QuickCam VC Parallel webcam from a local dealer. It claimed
to be for Win95, Win98SE and WinNT 4 only. The device connects to the
parallel port and the keyboard to draw power.

Just out of curiosity, I plugged it into my Win2000 Pro machine. Installed
the legacy software (QuickCam VC v4.15 -
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/downloads/software/CA/EN,CRID=1795,contentid=5959).
Voila! It worked beautifully! I was able to snap pictures and videos no
problem.

Unfortunately, I found one nagging glitch. Everytime I boot up Win2000 Pro,
it thinks there is a NEW "Connectix QuickCam VC" even though I have already
installed the Logitech QuickCam VC v4.15 software.

I can cancel this PNP dialog and everything seems fine. But this PNP device
scanning is very time consuming. Every boot-up takes considerably more time
than before.

I've tried going to the Hardware Devices, selected "Connectix QuickCam VC",
and "Disable this device". No luck. On reboot, even with it "disabled",
Windows 2000 Pro scans and finds "Connectix QuickCam VC" and asks me for a
driver...

I'd like to know if there is a way to selectively disable the scanning of
the QuickCam VC device (but allow other new PNP devices to be scanned)?
Perhaps there's some registry settings that I can modify?

Thanks!

 

[Jason]

1. Did you load the device as sys admin? If yes.....try
going into your bios and disable PnP.

-----Original Message-----
I bought an old QuickCam VC Parallel webcam from a local dealer. It claimed
to be for Win95, Win98SE and WinNT 4 only. The device connects to the
parallel port and the keyboard to draw power.

Just out of curiosity, I plugged it into my Win2000 Pro machine. Installed
the legacy software (QuickCam VC v4.15 -
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/downloads/software/CA/EN ,CRID=1795,contentid=5959).
Voila! It worked beautifully! I was able to snap pictures and videos no
problem.

Unfortunately, I found one nagging glitch. Everytime I boot up Win2000 Pro,
it thinks there is a NEW "Connectix QuickCam VC" even though I have already
installed the Logitech QuickCam VC v4.15 software.

I can cancel this PNP dialog and everything seems fine. But this PNP device
scanning is very time consuming. Every boot-up takes considerably more time
than before.

I've tried going to the Hardware Devices,

selected "Connectix QuickCam VC",

 

[Ed]

Thanks for your reply.

I thought about doing that. But that would mean I'm shutting off PnP
detection globally for all devices. If I plug in a new device in the
future, Win2000 Pro won't be able to recognize it, right?

Is there a way to do it via registry setting and in particular for the
QuickCam VC device only?