HID non-PlugNPlay Driver. What is it? Hwo to reinstall it?

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Almost by chance I found a non-Plug-N-Play driver on my Win2000 Pro machine
(SP4) that is not working (yellow !). The driver is a "HID Class driver." I
have searched the web and it is related in some way to USB. It appears to be
for connecting various "Human Interfaces Devices" to the USB bus.
(http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/)

Several months ago I gave up installing ViaVoice v.10 because I could not
get the USB microphone to work. IBM Via Voice tech support was no help --
really no help. I could learn more from the manual than the tech support
people could tell me or were willing to even attempt to diagnose or tell me.

Maybe the reason the USB sound did not work was this non-working HID driver.

I have no idea where this driver came from. Is it an driver that comes with
Windows 2000 Pro or did some application install it on my system?

I have deleted the driver but, since it is not Plug-N-Play, and having no
driver
set to reinstall it, and really no idea what the driver does, I have no way
of reinstalling
it.

Can anyone help here? How can I reinstall this HID driver.

You can see if you have one on your machine by selecting Control
Panel/System/Hardware/View=Hidden Devices/Non-PlugNPlay Drivers. On my
machine the HID driver was there..

Thanks.

John Wirt
 
John Wirt said:
Almost by chance I found a non-Plug-N-Play driver on my Win2000 Pro machine
(SP4) that is not working (yellow !). The driver is a "HID Class driver." I
have searched the web and it is related in some way to USB. It appears to be
for connecting various "Human Interfaces Devices" to the USB bus.
(http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/)

Several months ago I gave up installing ViaVoice v.10 because I could not
get the USB microphone to work. IBM Via Voice tech support was no help --
really no help. I could learn more from the manual than the tech support
people could tell me or were willing to even attempt to diagnose or tell me.

Maybe the reason the USB sound did not work was this non-working HID driver.

I have no idea where this driver came from. Is it an driver that comes with
Windows 2000 Pro or did some application install it on my system?

I have deleted the driver but, since it is not Plug-N-Play, and having no
driver
set to reinstall it, and really no idea what the driver does, I have no way
of reinstalling
it.

Can anyone help here? How can I reinstall this HID driver.

You can see if you have one on your machine by selecting Control
Panel/System/Hardware/View=Hidden Devices/Non-PlugNPlay Drivers. On my
machine the HID driver was there..

Thanks.

John Wirt

You shouldn't need to reinstall this driver because it's not part
of a standard Win2K installation. The driver is associated with
Windows CE.

Rick
 
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