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Unplug the player then open a command prompt window. Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 and hit return. Type start devmgmt.msc and hit return. In the device manager window which has now opened, select the Show hidden devices option in the View menu. Now look through the list to find anything which might reference your player - the first places to look would be under Disk drives or Universal Serial Bus controllers.
With the player unplugged, any entries for it should be shown with a faded icon, and it may be listed by name or simply as an Unknown device, Generic USB volume or something equally non-specific. Depending on what other USB devices you use on this PC, whether they're currently plugged in, and whether they always use the same USB socket or not, you may also have a bunch of other faded-out entries for these other devices too. The easiest thing to do is simply delete them all and let XP recreate the entries as and when those devices are next re-attached.
If there are any entries for it which aren't faded out, delete those too - this shouldn't be the case, but since your PC seems to have forgotten how to deal with your player, it may also have forgotten to mark it as disconnected.
Now with Device Manager still open, try plugging in the player and see what it gets listed as. If nothing else, you should at least see a new entry appearing with a normal non-faded icon, and ideally it should be listed as something other than a generic device. Also check the player itself to see how it's now behaving.
BTW, what's the "Autolead Detector" thing you mentioned in your first post? Google doesn't suggest anything related to Windows (other than this thread), so is it some third-party thing you've installed or is it just your way of referring to the standard pop-up that Windows (sometimes) displays when you plug in a USB device?
With the player unplugged, any entries for it should be shown with a faded icon, and it may be listed by name or simply as an Unknown device, Generic USB volume or something equally non-specific. Depending on what other USB devices you use on this PC, whether they're currently plugged in, and whether they always use the same USB socket or not, you may also have a bunch of other faded-out entries for these other devices too. The easiest thing to do is simply delete them all and let XP recreate the entries as and when those devices are next re-attached.
If there are any entries for it which aren't faded out, delete those too - this shouldn't be the case, but since your PC seems to have forgotten how to deal with your player, it may also have forgotten to mark it as disconnected.
Now with Device Manager still open, try plugging in the player and see what it gets listed as. If nothing else, you should at least see a new entry appearing with a normal non-faded icon, and ideally it should be listed as something other than a generic device. Also check the player itself to see how it's now behaving.
BTW, what's the "Autolead Detector" thing you mentioned in your first post? Google doesn't suggest anything related to Windows (other than this thread), so is it some third-party thing you've installed or is it just your way of referring to the standard pop-up that Windows (sometimes) displays when you plug in a USB device?
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