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5. In the Device manager window, expand the Ports (COM & LPT) category, rightclick
the parallel port—almost always named Printer Port (LPT1)—and click
Properties.
6. In the Printer Port (LPT1) Properties dialog box, on the General tab, in the Device
Usage drop-down list, select Do Not Use This Device (Disable). Click OK.
7. In the Device Manager window, note that the icon for Printer Port (LPT1) has a red
“x” on it, indicating that the device is disabled. Right-click the Printer Port (LPT1)
and click Properties.
8. In the Printer Port (LPT1) Properties dialog box, on the General tab, in the Device
Usage drop-down list, select Use This Device (Enable). Click OK.
9. Close all open windows.
Lesson Review
Lesson 2 Configuring and Troubleshooting Hardware Devices
Use the following questions to help determine whether you have learned enough to
move on to the next lesson. If you have difficulty answering these questions, review
the material in this lesson before beginning the next lesson. You can find answers to
these questions in the “Questions and Answers” section at the end of this chapter.
1. Windows XP Professional automatically identifies Plug and Play devices and arbitrates
their resource requests; the resource allocation among these devices is
___________________________ (permanent/not permanent).
2. How can you free any resource settings that you manually assigned to a Plug and
Play device?
3. You get a call on the help desk from a user wondering why there is no Wireless
Link icon in Control Panel on her desktop computer like the one on her laptop
computer. What should you tell the user?