i have changed my device manager to show hidden entries and to my surprise there are multiple listings for alot of my hardware devices. i am running WinXP Pro on an ibm thinkpad 600x 500mhz pent III processor, 512+ mb RAM. How do i determine what to get rid of and what to keep. it lists things i use from time to time as well as hardware i use all the time. mostly it lists my wireless adapter and ethernet adapter a few times and alot of non plug and play devices i do not use, and a ton of USB human interface devices (all multipe listings of the same item like logitech cordless mouse listed 7 times among other things) i used article hack #116 that talks about showing hidden hardware in the windows device manager. the article I found was on tech republic. i forget the name of the book it was from, but you can find it by looking for articles about hacking winxp to make it run faster and more efficiently and how hidden hardware uses up valuable system rescources…
all my hardware is listed as running properly–no error messages, just the multiple listings!
thanks to anyone who can help
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