troubleshooting Windows 7 hardware misidentification

Win7 Auto-detect Doesn’t Always Load the Right Drivers

In switching my test and production PCs over from Vista (or creating dual boot Vista/Win7 or XP-SP3/Win7 setups), I've observed that while Windows 7 does a very good job of identifying most hardware and then loading the proper driver, I've also recently observed that its accuracy is less than...