More GPS/USB port help needed.

[Jackster1]

Okay folks, you steered me right by the suggestion of getting a serial/USB convertor cable to interface my Garmin to the home computers. Now I see I have a total of 9 USB ports showing in the hardware profile of my pc but I only have 4 actual USB ports. Things ain't quite hooking up yet.
I need a fresh start. The question is, can I disable the ports in my hardware profile and have Windows XP sniff them out again? I just want to make sure I have only the ports I need (one for the printer, another for a Palm Pilot and another for the GPS).
Thanks, you folks are great!

[jduck]

You can go through and delete the ones that don't actually exhist, in the hardware profile. But you may find that when u reboot that it may add them back. My computer does that with NIC's. Another thing u can also just disable them in the hardware profile/