Windows 7 randomly installs an "Unknown Device" successfully

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Published on 2012-11-25T22:22:04Z Indexed on 2012/11/26 5:07 UTC
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Rarely (several days to weeks between occurrences,) and seemingly at random, I get a balloon notification from Windows 7 (x64 SP1 Home Premium) that it is installing hardware for me.

Whatever is being installed does so without error. However, no new hardware has been installed or plugged in! When I click the balloon it doesn't give me any useful information:

Unknown Device Installed

Looking in the event log, I find this entry:

  • Event ID: 20001
  • Source: UserPnp
  • Task Category: 7005
  • Message:

Driver Management concluded the process to install driver FileRepository\usb.inf_amd64_neutral_153b489118ee37b8\usb.inf for Device Instance ID USB\VID_0000&PID_0000\6&3AF9A177&0&0060&&02 with the following status: 0x0.

It appears to be USB related. My motherboard has both USB 2.0 and 3.0 controllers. My keyboard and mouse are plugged into the 2.0 slots and the data/recharge cable for a tablet (but not the tablet itself) was plugged in to the 3.0 slot. No other USB devices have been attached for several days/reboots.

Why is Windows doing this?

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