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Why does my netbook have more USB controllers than ports?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20268766 views
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Problem

My netbook has three USB ports, but when I look in the device manager: Five are listed. Does this matter in the least (or, why are five listed)? The reason I bring this up: See, if I know that two of the devices in the device manager don't actually have physical ports, I can disable then and up tha…

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Fix for: Why does my netbook have more USB controllers than ports?

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It's common these days for devices to use USB for internal device interconnects; think of it as using USB instead of PCI as its system bus.

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