From: "Geo" 

You guys do realize the alternative is you have to find an open IRQ, edit
config.sys and autoexec.bat to both load the driver and assign it to that
open IRQ and then if you move it to another port you have to go back and
redo all this.. Course you only have to copy the driver to C:\util one time
so it does address your complaint... 

Geo.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:450d809b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I had thought that bit of foolishness would have been fixed in versions
> > of Windows subsequent to the aging Windows 2000 that I am using here, I
> > guess I overestimated Microsoft's concern about usability.
>
> The same thing happens for other interfaces too, just move your NIC or PCI
> modem card to another slot on the motherboard, it'll require installing
> drivers again.  I never could understand why, it should take inventory of
> already installed drivers and use the right one if already there.  Vista
is
> no better at it...
>
> --
> Bob Comer
>
>
> "/m"  wrote in message
> news:q8mqg2thmpdiqb9gr2d4lu2tgiqpkd3q95{at}4ax.com...
> > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:04:06 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:
> >
> >>Are you running into a problem with the fact that a printer driver
> >>installed
> >>for a particular USB receptacle/port won't communicate with the very
same
> >>printer if its USB cable gets moved to a different USB receptacle/port.
> >
> > I ran into that problem with Windows 2000 and the USB-based audio device
> > I had been using*.  When I moved the device from one USB port to
> > another, I had to reinstall the drivers for that second port, drivers
> > that were already installed for the first port.  I also noticed a
> > similar occurrence when I plugged my PC Card wireless NIC into a
> > different slot than the one in which I had originally installed it.
> >
> > I had thought that bit of foolishness would have been fixed in versions
> > of Windows subsequent to the aging Windows 2000 that I am using here, I
> > guess I overestimated Microsoft's concern about usability.
> >
> > /m
> >
> >
> > * - past tense is used because I now use a MacMini (and AirPort Express)
> > for my audio stuff, and I have left that particular foolishness of
> > Windows behind...
>
>

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