The drivers for such must be installed before you plug USB things in. Also a real travesty is if someone installs a retail XP on a laptop, they rarely get all the drivers. No story is told and details left out.
More to read at http://www.usbman.com
Best of luck,
Bob
i have windows xp prof. in my laptop, when i connect my usb control pado it does not detect it, when i connect another item to usb it works correctly.
and when i connect my control pad to my desktop pc(with windows me) it detects it and works great.
thats why my control pad is working and usb port also. so can you please tell me how can i setup this.
i also installed the driver which comes with this, but it cant helps.
please help me.

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