Notebooks & Netbooks

[JackE]

Try uninstalling the drivers again. Power down. Then before power back on, re-insert the USB 3 drive and leave it there. Then power on and see what happens. I'm not sure about how the allegedly 'native' Win8 USB driver automatically installs. But it may be that, for backward compatibility reasons, the native driver defaults to lower speeds if it doesn't find a USB 3 drive in the slot. If this is indeed the case, then I guess for the time being you'll just have to keep a USB 3 drive in the slot to keep native driver from defaulting to lower speeds. Perhaps there is a way of changing this annoying default behavior in device mgr USB or hub properties?

Jack E/NJ

[Joker]

Yeah , I hope there is coz as you said it's a temporary fix !!!

[JackE]

Are you using a wireless mouse with a USB2 dongle?

Jack E/NJ

[Joker]

no no , i use the touchpad forouse

[JackE]

Yes, I understand you're using the touchpad.

But do you also have a USB dongle attached for ***any kind of peripheral device*** , not just a mouse?

Jack E/NJ

[Joker]

No none ... I also noticed one strange thing ... When I boot my laptop after shutting it down then at the boot screen , the option to enter the bios via F2 key is not shown and even if I press the F2 key it wont enter the bios , but if I restart then that option is shown and on pressing I can enter into bios ... I think they might be related some way or the other ... The thing that bothers me is that my desktop came with windows vista but after I installed windows 8 on it , it showed me the option to enter into the bios !!! So , why not here ??? In windows 7 , everything worked fine and on 1st boot I was shown that option ...

[JackE]

Machines that ship with Win8 usually have another faster-startup type of bios called UEFI that doesn't work like the old legacy bios likely in your vista machine. The new UEFI bios is accessed AFTER Win8 loads. This might partly explain why you can access your old legacy bios on a warm vs cold boot. I doubt it has much to do with your USB speed and touchpad problems. It likely has more to do with Win8. In my opinion, and not necessarily anybody's else's --- WinVista can usually be nicely upgraded to Win7 as you already know --- Win7 can be downgraded to Win8 --- just like WinXP could be downgraded to WinVista --- and so on and so forth.  I think Win8/8.1 is destined to become about as popular with the masses as WinVista. 8^) In other words, the masses shouldn't have to deal with these frustrating incompatiblities with different WinOS on machines that are both less than a few years old.

Jack E/NJ

[PenguinJim]

Windows 8.1 is a decent OS, great for touchscreens, and a ten-minute effort restores the interface to be almost identical to Windows 7.

I wouldn't recommend anyone to pay for it over Windows 7 (unless faster start-up and great touchscreen support is that important to you), but there's no reason at all to avoid it.

[Joker]

Ok but any idea to solve my usb 3.0 problem ???

[JackE]

Try this if you haven't already. Uninstall the native Win8 drivers and hub again. Then try to install the Win7 intel version under Win8 to see how that goes. Report back. 

Jack E/NJ