Win7 Plug and Play with the UGA-2K-A
Posted on 05. Mar, 2010 by Bernie Thompson in Windows
Attach your new Plugable USB graphics adapter to a Win 7 PC. What happens?
.. driver is found and downloaded from Microsoft’s Windows Update system…
… and a DisplayLink EULA and a bunch of screen flashes later …
Windows 7 and a network connection takes care of it. No driver disk needed.
Enabling Windows Update on Windows XP
Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Bernie Thompson in Windows
Windows 7 and Vista have Windows Update on by default, as do most recent Windows XP machines. So when a new USB device arrives, the system is able to go out to the Internet and check Microsoft’s huge library of drivers to find a match — a great plug and play experience for devices like those we make here at Plugable.
But Windows XP, when it originally shipped in 2001, didn’t have this capability. So to enable Windows Update on XP, if you don’t already have it on, just upgrade to XP Service Pack 2 or later, and follow Microsoft’s steps:
- Click Start, click Run, type sysdm.cpl, and then press ENTER.
- Click the Automatic Updates tab, and then click to select one of the following options. We recommend that you select the Automatic (recommended) Automatically download recommended updates for my computer and install them option.
Microsoft has more information in their knowledge base article at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306525
UD-160-A automatic driver download and install via Windows Update
Posted on 21. Feb, 2010 by Bernie Thompson in Windows
Here’s the result when you connect the Plugable UD-160-A universal laptop docking station to a completely fresh Windows 7 system:
- Windows automatically finds, downloads, and installs drivers for all the devices on the dock — the built-in USB C-Media audio, ASIX ethernet, DisplayLink graphics functions are all supported.
- *NO* driver disks to find, no web addresses to enter, nothing – you get the latest drivers automatically.
- This will work with the Plugable dock and any Windows 7 machine, now and in the future.
If you have Windows Update enabled on Vista and Windows XP – the story is the same (although Microsoft’s UI looks different on each OS). So go ahead, lose your driver disks — just get that off your mind. You won’t need them. Cool.
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