Windows 10: Front USB Recognition Issue

I have this seemingly random, recurring issue with the front two USB ports on my PC. I have a pair of externally powered Seagate 500GB Freeagent HDDs of different vintages that I use for system images and they plug into one of the two front USB ports on the tower. It seems that after a CU update, the system will not recognize the front two ports when either of these drives are plugged in. The four rear USB ports work fine and have devices permanently connected to them (keyboard, mouse, external HDD, & printer). The system has these two 3.0 ports configured as drives H & G. The ports don't show up in Device Manager or Devices & Printers in the Control Panel pages until they are recognized. I have tried physically connecting the drives under power and then doing a restart or boot up and the two ports will not be recognized. I have disconnected and reconnected the drives with different USB cables to no avail. Eventually, the drives will be recognized and shown, but I'm not sure what triggers the event. It usually happens when I'm putzing around in the system trying to see the drives, but I have not figured out what triggers the recognition. I have not had the issue (that I can recall) with flash drives. Once the USB ports have been "activated" with a HDD, the problem disappears until the next CU update. Since I normally don't use these two HDDs until right before I do a WU, I don't see the problem right away. I'm guessing the issue is with my tower hardware as all of the drivers are up to date by W10. Is there a way I can manually trigger the recognition of the drives?

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Windows Speech Recognition

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I would require more information to help you better.

Are facing any issue with speech recognition?

I would suggest you to follow the steps to see Advance speech options.

• Press Windows+X key on the keyboard
• Click on control panel
• Select speech recognition
• On the left hand pane you will see Advance speech option
  

I would also suggest you to refer to the below link:

How to use Speech Recognition

How to use Speech Recognition in Windows

(Step applies to Windows 10 as well)

Hope this information helps and let us know if you have any further queries related to Windows we will be glad to help you.

 

Facial recognition

Hello Bill,

We need to do further investigation on your concern so that we will know why the facial recognition quit working:

• Have you recently made any changes/updates prior to this issue?
• Is there an error message when you try to sign using facial recognition?
• What is the make and model of your computer?

In the meantime, I would suggest that you perform the troubleshooting steps in this
article.

We will wait for your response.

Regards.

 

Speech recognition errors

Hi Steve,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.


I understand your query regarding speech recognition on the software you are using for Speech Recognizer. Let me help you in resolving the issue.

I would appreciate if you can provide us the following information to help us understand the issue better.

• 
  How many language packs are installed and enabled on your computer and what are they?
  
• 
  Does this happen with all the language packs in the computer?
  
• 
  What are the recent changes that you have made to the computer prior to this issue?
  
• 
  Did you try any troubleshooting steps to resolve this issue?
  

The issue might be due to settings on your computer. Let’s refer to the following suggestion and check the issue status.

Refer to these steps and check the issue status.

• 
  Press Windows and X keys together.
  
• 
  Click on Control Panel.
  
• 
  Open Control Panel then Speech Recognition Options.
  
• 
  In the upper right of the Speech Recognition Option window click
  Advanced Speech Options.
  
• 
  Remove the checkmark next to, ‘Allow computer to review your documents’.
  
• 
  Click Apply and click OK
  

Refer below article to Use Speech Recognition:

Voice recognition in Windows 10

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/use-voice-recognition-in-windows-10#v1h=tab02

Keep us posted on Windows related queries and we will be happy to assist you further.