Installing Plug and Play Devices
Computing old-timers will remember (none too fondly) the days when installing devices required flipping DIP switches, fiddling with jumpers, or fussing with various IRQ, I/O port, and DMA combinations. If, on the other hand, all the abbreviations in the previous sentence are incomprehensible to you, think yourself lucky that you live in a time when all the devices manufactured in recent years support Plug and Play, which means you simply attach the device and Windows 8 automatically recognizes it and installs the necessary drivers and other software.
How do you know this is happening? If you’re on the desktop, you see the Device Setup icon appear on the taskbar, and the icon shows a green background moving in ...
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