software identified as hardware

[firewall]

I installed windows on my computer from scratch and then installed various required softwares. On re-booting, the Add Harware Wizard came up, detecting Adobe LM and sysc something for some Symantec software. These were identified as hardware instead of some software.

On fully booting to my desktop and opening Device Manager, I removed these 'devices' and refreshed the plug n play devices. The software which was identified as hardware didn't come up again........

The odd so-called hardware still comes up which is actually some software or the other......

Any comments/opinions?

 

[casper114]

Damn, that's one of the craziest things I have ever heard of in my life. I will research it and get back with you on that.

 

[Maximilian]

Kewl, very strange too.

 

[spyordie007]

Are you sure this isnt expected behavior? I'm not familier with those pieces of software so I dont know what they should be appearing as. If you dont see a response here you might want to try the software - apps forum.

There are software drivers/devices that emulate hardware and will show up in device manager.

 

[Phoenix86]

Can't adobe add a printer?

*echoing spyordie007*
There is lots of software that emulates hardware for various reasons. Some firewall/vpn does this.

 

[firewall]

Originally posted by: spyordie007
Are you sure this isnt expected behavior? I'm not familier with those pieces of software so I dont know what they should be appearing as. If you dont see a response here you might want to try the software - apps forum.

There are software drivers/devices that emulate hardware and will show up in device manager.

No,that's not expected behaviour. This didn't happened on my last WINXP installation.

This is happening on a brand new compaq laptop (M series) too.

I am utterly thrown as to the cause of this. It isn't as such a big problem but it is confusing.......

 

[firewall]

Originally posted by: Phoenix86
Can't adobe add a printer?

*echoing spyordie007*
There is lots of software that emulates hardware for various reasons. Some firewall/vpn does this.

True, but the problem occured before I installed Acrobat Professional 7. I installed Acrobat Reader 7 at the start. I don't think Reader has any printers......Acrobat Professional does but the error occured before it......unless the computer (PIII 700MHz) is so advanced that it shows the errors before they occur , I can't think up an explaination for it.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: asadasif

Originally posted by: spyordie007
Are you sure this isnt expected behavior? I'm not familier with those pieces of software so I dont know what they should be appearing as. If you dont see a response here you might want to try the software - apps forum.

There are software drivers/devices that emulate hardware and will show up in device manager.

No,that's not expected behaviour. This didn't happened on my last WINXP installation.

This is happening on a brand new compaq laptop (M series) too.

I am utterly thrown as to the cause of this. It isn't as such a big problem but it is confusing.......

Same version?

 

[firewall]

No. Both; Pro on my PC and Home on the notebook, are SP2 versions. The notebook has an OEM copy so there shouldn't be any problems with that. Both computers are fully updated using Windows Update too.

 

[MrChad]

Looks like it's Adobe's license management service.

Info

 

[firewall]

Interesting.....I disabled it using Iolo's System Mechanic 5.5a so that my PC takes less time to boot.....I did this on the laptop too.... Does Symantec loads such services too for observing hardware changes and registration issues...

Any idea why the Generic host process gives an error at startup....which is totally random in it's occurence....