I stress this is only for third party drivers, things Windows or your OEM may have preinstalled, may be harder to find better/correct drivers for. Every time this happens repeat the above procedure to arrive at a 'clean' installation w.r.t. You may have previous installations cached allowing Windows to automagickly reinstall the device. Out With the Old (Unseen Driver Conflicts)Ĭonsider the following where Lenovo Composite ADB Interface is in some way undesirable: Windows very efficiently installed just the driver and none of the bloat, it was a minor device I might have lived without. I activated the offending hardware from device manager and either uninstalled it first or just showed it to my DVD drive (more on this process in just a moment, it is this process that is the crux of this document).
It wasn't necessary to use the manufacturer's installer. I dug out my original factory 'drivers and apps' disk and put it in the DVD drive. Only after struggling to connect my phone on a VCOM/COM port did I decide keeping this motherboard device deactivated might be a bad idea. Install Missing Manufacturer / OEM (eg Dell, HP, Acer etc) Driversįor years I put up with an unidentified, but disabled 'Simple PCI communication interface' or 'Simple PCI communication controller'. Then this isn't a problem for you and you can continue to the Out With the Old (Unseen Driver Conflicts) section.
