[time-nuts] USB problems and solutions - Some what Off Topic

[paul swed]

Yes you can clean them up its online and its pretty simple not that I
recall what it was. I had the same issue and in device manager essentially
the hanger ons are hidden devices once you tell device manager to show
hidden you will see the issue.
I do not recall if you right click and release or what.
But it was online and a common issue.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Cash Olsen <radio.kd5ssj at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been plagued with hard crashes of the computer when plugging in and
> unplugging USB devices. I have generally determined that some of the USB to
> serial devices are the worst offenders. I am also suspicious of some of the
> hubs. I wander if even the operating system is partly to blame.
>
> I'm using Windows Vista, and have several different USB to serial adapters.
> Most are Silicon Labs and Prolific. I thought I had the problem resolved
> with Prolific by over-riding the driver and installing an earlier version
> but Windows may have updated the driver, that seems to be a common problem.
>
> I'm coming to time-nuts because I remember that at least one member had a
> very large number of adapters on one computer, so I'm hoping to find some
> help. I don't generally seem to have trouble with other USB devices, just
> the serial adapters.
>
> One further issue, the COM ports are marked in use from 3 to 50+ and I'm
> only using at any one time 3 or 4. Can I clean up the assignments and can I
> make the assignments static after connect and reconnect or restarting the
> computer?
>
> --
> S. Cash Olsen KD5SSJ
> ARRL Technical Specialist
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