I have a Nexus 5 that I'm plugging into a front USB 3.0 port on a GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD4H with Intel Z87 chipset. Every single time I do it, Windows 7 pops up the cursed "This device can perform faster" balloon. Of course, the device can't actually perform faster. This is known problem with the Nexus 5. LG used a SoC that is USB 3.0 capable, but they neglected to equip the phone with a USB 3.0 connector. Either they couldn't figure out a way to report to the OS that the device can only be used at USB 2.0 speeds or they just didn't bother, and Google apparently didn't care enough to make them fix this glaring problem.
Anyway, the common wisdom is that you can get rid of these annoying balloons by going into Device Manager, going to the properties for some USB controller device, and unchecking "Tell me if my device can perform faster". However, this doesn't work for me! I still get the balloons even though I unchecked this in the only place it was available. And checking "Don't tell me about USB errors" didn't help either.
I have two devices with this setting:
Intel(R) 8 Series/C220 Series USB EHCI #1
Intel(R) 8 Series/C220 Series USB EHCI #2
The settings appear to be shared between them. I have many other devices under "Universal Serial Bus controllers" in Device Manager but none of them have the "Tell me if my device can perform faster" option. The devices with the setting say "Intel" for "Driver Provider", with a date of 7/31/2013 and version 9.4.0.1025.
How can I stop this balloon from appearing? I'm sick of Windows telling me my device can perform faster every single time I plug it in when it's a lie, and the setting that is supposed to prevent this doesn't have any effect! Clicking on the balloon just makes it disappear (it doesn't bring up any window with settings - maybe that was in previous versions of Windows only?) and I get the balloon no matter which USB I plug the device into, whether it's USB 2.0 or 3.0, front or back. The UI that comes up when I click the wrench icon in the balloon does not apply to this type of balloon.
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.