Found new hardware wizard

[Keith Rathband]

Is there anyway of disabling the found new hardware wizard.

I am setting up a system to be deployed to lot of sites. I want to stop the
hardware wizard popping up if somone connects a new device to either the
LPT, USB or serial ports.

Would stopping the plug and play service achieve this ???

 

[Bob I]

Disable the LPT, USB and Com ports in the BIOS.

 

[Keith Rathband]

Not quite that simple,

I am migrateing 400 systems (all over the UK) currently runing window NT to
window 2000.

Every windows NT system has a printer connected to it, of which there are
loads of different types (Epson LX300, Epson LX850 etc..), but they all work
with the generic "IBM Graphics 9 Pin" driver.
I want windows2000 to work in the same way, but the problem is it keeps
trying to install drivers specific for the printer connected.

 

[Bob I]

Ah! Very interesting. try doctoring up the .ini file (ntprint.ini) in
the INF directory?