On February 27, 2015 I talked about that I saw a window that said   
   "Found New Hardware" for a Printer whenever I powered up my XP box   
   after it had been Shut Down, or Restarted - but didn't see the window   
   if I Hibernated the XP box to turn it off, and turned it on the next   
   time I want to use it.   
      
   Since then I've HAD to Restart the XP box several times, so today I   
   thought I would try to fool the Found New Hardware thingy.   
      
   I only have one printer connected to the XP box with a USB 2.0 cable   
   but I only turn on the power strip that its AC Power Line Cord is   
   plugged in when I want to use the printer or some other thing that I   
   have plugged into that power strip.   
      
   Here is what I did today.   
      
   I usually (I try not using the word normal since I ain't) use a Limited   
   Users Account, but this window wanted to use a Administrator Account so   
   I entered the password for my XP Admin Account.   
      
   On the next screen where it asks if I want to use Windows Update,   
   I selected "No, not this time".   
      
   I selected "Install from a list or specify a location (Advanced)" in   
   the next screen.   
      
   "Don't search, I will choose the driver to install" was my selection   
   for the next screen.   
      
   Then I selected the printer/AIO that XP already uses and after pressing   
   the button there was a Error Message "The specific port is unknown".   
      
   I did this procedure twice.   
   The first time I didn't have the power strip the printer is plugged in   
   to turned on.   
   The second time I had the power turned ON to the power strip and the   
   printer.   
      
   Both times I got the same Error Message.   
      
   I thought that I could fool whatever had made the computer think I   
   added a Printer to this computer, but I failed.   
      
   On another day I will uninstall my Printer/AIO and see if after I had   
   Restarted the computer I could install the thing and see if that would   
   satisfy whatever caused it to THINK a new printer was connected.   
      
   Thanks to Daryl, Mark and Tom who offered suggestions to me when I   
   wrote about this a few months ago.   
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