Speed up KvM switching or keep unplugged USB alive?

[Nexworks]

I am trying to speed up my KvM's switching. Every time I switch to a new PC windows re-detects the USB devices. The process takes about 3-4 seconds and it is quite annoying. Anyone know if theres anything I can do to improve things?

One of the things I was contemplating is finding some way of keeping unplugged USB devices alive so windows will not remove them from the device list. That way if I switched to the system it would simply resume with those devices instead of re-detecting them. Is this duable? Running XP and Vista on the two machines.

 

[mpilchfamily]

Your not going to be able to speed that up. As soon as windows no longer detects the item it turns it off. The problem isn't with the KVM but with the OS. The KVM switchs pretty fast then your waiting for the OS to redetect the devices. Only way to speed it up is to keep those items plugged into the systems at all time but that defeats the use of the KVM. They arn't very well suited to fast trancfer with USB devices that have more then the basic KB and mouse fuctions.

 

[Nexworks]

Well I know some KvM switches like the D-Link one somehow manage to keep unplugged devices detected and alive as the switching is nearly instantaneous without any detection by windows. But im not willing to go changing hardware just yet. Hence why I was looking for some way of telling windows not to remove the devices and always leave them there until removed manually but so far ive found no way of doing so.