How to suppress "Welcome to the found New Hardware Wizard"?

[Sebastian Kaist]

Whenever I turn on my Laserprinter (connected through USB) a dialog popsup
with the "Welcome to the found New Hardware Wizard".

This is somehow odd because I already succesfully installed the drivers for the Laserprinter
and it works fine.

So how do I tell WinXP to popup this dialog (only) for this laserprinter in the future?

Is there an option/Registry value "driver already installed for each device?

Sebastian

 

[John Inzer]

Whenever I turn on my Laserprinter (connected through USB) a dialog
popsup
with the "Welcome to the found New Hardware Wizard".

This is somehow odd because I already succesfully installed the
drivers for the Laserprinter and it works fine.

So how do I tell WinXP to popup this dialog (only) for this
laserprinter in the future?

Is there an option/Registry value "driver already installed for each
device?

Sebastian

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Maybe the following article would be worth a look:

(298370) The New Hardware Wizard may
detect the printer device after every restart
of the computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298370


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[Gerry]

Sebastian

Are you disconnecting it and reconnecting it later?


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[Ron Badour]

You could try this: Remove the printer, reboot, let the new hardware wizard
run and have the driver available to install when the wizard asks for it.

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[smlunatick]

Whenever I turn on my Laserprinter (connected through USB) a dialog popsup
with the "Welcome to the found New Hardware Wizard".

This is somehow odd because I already succesfully installed the drivers for the Laserprinter
and it works fine.

So how do I tell WinXP to popup this dialog (only) for this laserprinter in the future?

Is there an option/Registry value "driver already installed for each device?

Sebastian

This is a feature of the Plug and Play system in Windows. This occurs
because Windows XP was started when the printer was not turned on.
When you turned it on, the USB port "sees" the printer and sends the
"new device detected" signal to XP. If the drivers were correct
developed for XP's USB Plug and Play access, then this message should
not be coming out. However, it seems this is not your case. I would
check with the printer's manufacturer for revised drivers or I would
leave the printer powered on constantly but set up it's power saving
feature.

 

[SC Tom]

Whenever I turn on my Laserprinter (connected through USB) a dialog popsup
with the "Welcome to the found New Hardware Wizard".

This is somehow odd because I already succesfully installed the drivers
for the Laserprinter
and it works fine.

So how do I tell WinXP to popup this dialog (only) for this laserprinter
in the future?

Is there an option/Registry value "driver already installed for each
device?

Sebastian

Have you checked the printer manufacturer's web site for updated drivers? As
smlunatick said, if the drivers are correctly written, you shouldn't have a
problem. I have an older HP hooked through USB that I leave turned off until
I need it, and when I turn it on, I don't get the new hardware wizard. A
newer driver solved it for me.

SC Tom

 

[Gerry]

BeeCeeBee

Why should the driver CD contain the latest latest driver?


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[Unknown]

You are assuming the latest driver is on the CD. BAD assumption.

 

[Jim]

Whenever I turn on my Laserprinter (connected through USB) a dialog popsup
with the "Welcome to the found New Hardware Wizard".

This is somehow odd because I already succesfully installed the drivers for the Laserprinter
and it works fine.

So how do I tell WinXP to popup this dialog (only) for this laserprinter in the future?

Is there an option/Registry value "driver already installed for each device?

Sebastian

Do you plug it into the same usb socket ?

 

[Richard in AZ]

| On 28 Apr 2009 11:07:35 GMT, (e-mail address removed) (Sebastian Kaist) wrote:
|
| >Whenever I turn on my Laserprinter (connected through USB) a dialog popsup
| >with the "Welcome to the found New Hardware Wizard".
| >
| >This is somehow odd because I already succesfully installed the drivers for the Laserprinter
| >and it works fine.
| >
| >So how do I tell WinXP to popup this dialog (only) for this laserprinter in the future?
| >
| >Is there an option/Registry value "driver already installed for each device?
| >
| >Sebastian
|
| Do you plug it into the same usb socket ?

I suspect that it is plugged into the same socket.
This seems to be a problem lately with HP printers. I have 8 customers, with different HP printer
models, with this problem.
We have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and several suggested registry changes. No luck on any
of them. No response from HP on email of three of the machines. Seems to occur when the printer is
first powered on, either by turning the computer on (printer attached and on) or by turning the
printer on after the computer is running.