Which device was installed?

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L.White

Hello,
I have a windows xp machine that has been running without any hardware
changes for a week or two. When I came in this morning I found a pop up
window stating that the software for my newly installed device required a
system restart. Asking if the system could be restarted or not. We have not
placed a new device on the machine. When I go to device manager I do not see
a device labeled with a yellow warning. How can I tell which device the
system just tried to install?

LWhite
 
It probably was a USB drive. If inserted for the first time, xp sometimes
says that although no reboot is really necessary.
 
I was guessing that it was a USB, what I need to know is which one? How can
you tell when a device was installed?

LWhite
 
I was guessing that it was a USB, what I need to know is which one? How can
you tell when a device was installed?
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Don't think you can learn when.
There's surely no event logs about that.
Probably you could examine timestamps on registry values
which were created for that usb drive...
 
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