For a while, if it was plugged in and I moved it at all, it would constantly be deactivated and detected in Windows, as if it was shorting - but it never did this on the other computers I tested it with. Since then, the damn thing has only caused problems.

Annoyed, I installed the driver off of the disk, with the USB card still plugged in as it says to do - the progress bar reached the end, but then it froze until I finally gave up and unplugged the wireless card, upon which the installation finished. I could see all of the nearby wireless networks and connected to my home network. Windows automatically installed a driver and it showed up in the taskbar using the wireless networking utility built into Windows.

The first time I plugged it in, it played the device detected and device deactivated tones several times. It trashed my new 64-bit Windows 7 desktop that I purchased it for. It works fine on my brother's Windows 7 64-bit desktop. It works fine on my Windows 7 64-bit laptop (doesn't need it but I was testing). I bought a Zonet ZEW2500P USB Wireless B/G adapter from Newegg because it has outstanding ratings and is often reported as Windows 7 64-bit compatible. Sorry it will take so long to explain it. Ugh, this is such an idiotic problem to have.

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