Warp wrote:
>   What I don't understand is why Windows can't do "hmm, I *already* have
> the driver for this device installed, I don't need to install it again,
> I'll just support the device right away". It's not like connecting it to
> a different usb port would make recognizing the type of device more difficult
> than connecting it to the same port as yesterday.

It's not actually installing new code for the device. It's installing 
the configuration for that particular instance of that particular kind 
of device. It doesn't prompt you for a CD or anything. It just writes 
the configuration into the registry, starts up any services need to 
support it, and so on.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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