Solution 2: Connect to a different USB port. The very first thing that you need to do is to refresh the connection. I'm still planning on upgrading when Win10 comes out officially tomorrow. What to do if you get error The last USB device you connected to this computer malfunctioned Solution 1: Disconnect and reconnect USB device. It's possible that the USB error message problem is between Win10 and the VMWare Player VM in which it is operating. Which is still slower than my Win7 that boots in 25-30 seconds. After some tweaking, I was able to get Win10 to boot in just over 1 minute, Not so! Win10 took almost three times as long to boot as Win7. I fully expected the naked Win10 to smoke the fully loaded Win7 in boot time. To fix USB device malfunctioned and not recognized by fixing USB Root Hub. That’s it After the USB device connected to your PC, then plug in Power Supply to PC 2. On a boot SSD in dual-boot setup with Win7. Now connect your USB device to the USB ports.

Maybe the error message and boot/shutdown times are related. Win10 takes anywhere from 2-4 times longer than Win7 to shut down. Device Manager shows no errors or warnings.īTW, it takes twice the time to boot up Win10 as it does Win7 on my desktop computer. I had to go into System-Settings-Notifications & actions and turned off 'Show app notifications' to get the pop-out to stop popping out - but the icon is still there (right or left click the icon and the message appears with no options except I get the pop out every 30 seconds for about 5 seconds - very annoying. Second boot, though, and the pop out message and icon returned. Sweet! Thought I had it licked just by asking the forum. So, after a month of this behavior with no resolution from any action I took, I figured I'd ask the forum.įirst boot to Win10 this morning saw no icon and no notification. Any kind of click on that icon would pop up the error message - and no setting in Notification Settings affected it.

Nothing I would do affected it - I removed all USB device drivers in Device Manager, I made absolutely sure there were no USB devices connected, I restarted Windows (both Win7 host and All day yesterday the icon sat in my notification area of my taskbar.

The last usb device you connected