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Book VIII
Chapter 1
Finding and
Installing the
Hardware You Need
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Installing New Hardware
3. As soon as the computer starts to come back to life, press and hold
down F8.
Windows 7 displays a menu of special startup options you can choose.
4. Use the up-arrow and down-arrow keys to move the menu’s highlight
to the option Last Known Good Configuration (Advanced), and then
press Enter.
5. Finish the startup procedure as usual.
If this procedure restarts your computer successfully, Windows 7 discards
the “new” screwed-up configuration and returns permanently to the last
known good configuration.
Installing USB hardware
Nine times out of ten, when you install a new USB device in a Windows 7
computer that has all the latest fixes, everything works easily. The general
procedure works this way:
1. Read the manual.
Some hardware installs automatically: Plug it in and it works. Most hard-
ware needs a little help: You have to put a CD in the CD drive shortly
after you plug it in and let Windows pull the driver off the CD. Some
hardware, though, takes a little extra help, and you have to run an instal-
lation program from the product’s CD before you plug it in.
The only way to know for sure which approach works for the specific
piece of hardware you bought is to read the furshlinger manual! Look for
the section with instructions on installing the hardware on a Windows 7
computer. Failing that, look for Vista support. Follow the instructions.
2. After you read the manual and do what it says, plug the USB device
into any handy USB slot.
Windows realizes that you just installed a new USB device. Most of the
time, Windows has a driver handy that will work and then installs it and
notifies you that your new device is ready. In some cases, though, it
brings up the Found New Hardware Wizard.
3. Select the Yes, This Time Only link to let Microsoft see whether it has
a new driver for the hardware.
4. Follow the rest of the steps in the wizard, and most times, you’ll end
up with a functioning device.
5. If you can’t make the device work, check the Microsoft Knowledge
Base articles for troubleshooting USB devices.
A good place to start: the old Vista tips for solving problems with USB
devices, at tinyurl.com/2vkuqv.