

Plugged in, then click the drop down menu and select USB Settings, then expand USB selective suspend settings. Next to your currently selected plan, click.Start button, type power plan in the Search box, then click This method prevents your USB external drive from powering down. You can try to disable the USB selective suspend setting if the issue persists. Your USB controllers will automatically install. Start, then type device manager in the Search This method resolves steps where the currently loaded USB driver has become unstable or corrupted. If the issue persists I suggest you to reinstall the USB controllers and check. Hardware devices are not working or are not detected in Windows: You can run the following fixit and check if it helps. In Device manager before starting with the troubleshooting steps. I also suggest you to check the status of the device

You can try the following steps and check if it helps. With the Elgato then it copuld be an issue with the Elgato device. If the computer is not able to detect any USB devices connected to the computer then the issue could be due to an outdated USB driver or a defective USB port.

Ever since I've upgraded to windows 8.1, this has happened.

I'm just trying to figure out why when i download installation files, it just extracts them instead of installing it as an application.
