Switching USB ports question

Plugged new printer for wife's old GW into USB port on front of machine.
Software said I would get better preformance on a different USB port.
Printer works fine but would I be asking for trouble if I switched
devices like her camera input USB with printer? I'd hate to have to
reinstall software. Her system is XP. I have a tough time working
around all the spinach she has on her machine and she won't let son or I
clean it up.

Frank

Once the software is installed you can plug a device into any USB port and
the computer will recognize it.

Frank wrote:
| Plugged new printer for wife's old GW into USB port on front of
| machine. Software said I would get better preformance on a different
| USB port. Printer works fine but would I be asking for trouble if I
| switched devices like her camera input USB with printer? I'd hate to
| have to reinstall software. Her system is XP. I have a tough time
| working around all the spinach she has on her machine and she won't
| let son or I clean it up.
|
| Frank

Joan F (MI) wrote:
> Once the software is installed you can plug a device into any USB port and
> the computer will recognize it.
>
> Frank wrote:
> | Plugged new printer for wife's old GW into USB port on front of
> | machine. Software said I would get better preformance on a different
> | USB port. Printer works fine but would I be asking for trouble if I
> | switched devices like her camera input USB with printer? I'd hate to
> | have to reinstall software. Her system is XP. I have a tough time
> | working around all the spinach she has on her machine and she won't
> | let son or I clean it up.
> |
> | Frank
>
>
Thanks. I will do it if wife is pestered by notice coming up. Part of
my reticence comes from trying to put new GW mouse on my new GW with
Vista. GW shipped mouse with USB but when I tried it on an adaptor from
other mouse from USB to regular mouse port, it would not recognize it.

Frank

For a USB mouse to work with a PS/2 adapter, it has to be designed a little
different. The only USB mice that I know and that work reliably with a PS/2
adapter in a PS/2 port are the ones are sold with the PS/2 adapter. Of course,
I haven't seen all the possible brands and models of mice, so I may be missing
something here by making a generalization.

Way back when, there was the same problem using a PS/2 mouse with an adapter in
a serial port. Microsoft seemed to have nailed that problem pretty well, and
maybe Logitech did... Ben Myers

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:58:29 -0500, Frank <frankdotlogullo@comcastperiodnet>
wrote:

>Joan F (MI) wrote:
>> Once the software is installed you can plug a device into any USB port and
>> the computer will recognize it.
>>
>> Frank wrote:
>> | Plugged new printer for wife's old GW into USB port on front of
>> | machine. Software said I would get better preformance on a different
>> | USB port. Printer works fine but would I be asking for trouble if I
>> | switched devices like her camera input USB with printer? I'd hate to
>> | have to reinstall software. Her system is XP. I have a tough time
>> | working around all the spinach she has on her machine and she won't
>> | let son or I clean it up.
>> |
>> | Frank
>>
>>
>Thanks. I will do it if wife is pestered by notice coming up. Part of
>my reticence comes from trying to put new GW mouse on my new GW with
>Vista. GW shipped mouse with USB but when I tried it on an adaptor from
>other mouse from USB to regular mouse port, it would not recognize it.
>
>Frank

Ben Myers wrote:
> For a USB mouse to work with a PS/2 adapter, it has to be designed a little
> different. The only USB mice that I know and that work reliably with a PS/2
> adapter in a PS/2 port are the ones are sold with the PS/2 adapter. Of course,
> I haven't seen all the possible brands and models of mice, so I may be missing
> something here by making a generalization.
>
> Way back when, there was the same problem using a PS/2 mouse with an adapter in
> a serial port. Microsoft seemed to have nailed that problem pretty well, and
> maybe Logitech did... Ben Myers
>
That makes sense. I had the adapter left over from a new mouse put on my
old GW. With new GW, I'm disappointed that while computer came with
mouse port, mouse came with USB and now all USB ports are in use. The
literature from GW showed installation of both types, as if they did not
know which the Chinese manufacturer would supply.