Unwanted IrDA Decide

Posted: 03-02-2004, 01:25 PM

Doug Smith

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I have a WinXP Home laptop (Dell) that recently started displaying the add hardware wizard after boot up. It says that it's found an infrared device and is prompting me for the device drivers. However, there is no infrared device built into this machine, and I have absolutely no additional hardware installed. When I try to remove this device in the Device Manager, XP tells me that it is a device that is necessary to boot the machine and it won't remove it. Dell's support tells me that my only option is to reinstall the machine, but I find this unacceptable.
Why is XP trying to install a device that's not really there?
Doug Smith

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