All USB devices Disconnect randomly on Windows 11.

Anonymous
2023-10-09T03:59:17+00:00

All of my USB devices randomly disconnect and will sometimes reconnect on their own in 10-20 seconds. Other times when they do not reconnect I have to completely restart the PC to get devices back working. I have tried uninstalling drivers for the USB roothubs and devices with no luck of a fix. I have not seen this issue addressed elsewhere or corrected. Other instances have not been similar to mine and this issue was non existent before upgrading to Win11. I even did a repair install of Win11 with no luck either. Any help or fixes would be greatly appreciated.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-04-14T17:16:19+00:00

    Try disabling Edge on startup and reboot. I know, it doesn't sound like it would be related but this fixed it for me, and I can't explain it. problem is, after a windows update, it was back on in startup, so I had to disable it again after that.

    I started Taskmanager and killed alle Edge and webview process. I was able to copy more than a GB of data. Excatly at the moment I opened Edge, my USB disk dropped out, and copying halted..

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-12T08:06:21+00:00

    This is excatly what I have experienced. No problems in windows 10, upgrading to win 11 indroduced this error. Then A reenstall of win 11 didnt fix the problem, however it became less frequent. One thing Ive noticed, is the longer the pc is on, the more frequent it becomes

    Thanks

    Kasper

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-02-23T22:59:05+00:00

    23 -2 -2025

    Problem still exist after upgrade to win 11

    My laptop at work has more isues after update to win 11

    can not do the inlog thing .. keboard is not responding must every day do several reboots to get it to work

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-18T21:35:26+00:00

    This is already my 2nd Windows 11 laptop that does this. I have a Yenkee Spark speaker connected through USB cable and just a minute or two later it suddently gets disconnected and goes into a bluetooth mode. It happened to me on an Asus and Lenovo laptops but for some reason not on Acer (all have Win 11). This is just terrible incompetence on MS side.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-02-17T16:24:02+00:00

    So I am back yet again with some updates and answers.

    Yes, I am running Windows 11 on both machines.

    Sadly though I didn't check the forums before going back to the other PC so I didn't do the test, but both machines seem to run well yet again.

    Main PC:

    • I haven't had any disconnects since last I left an update, I updated to 24h2 today, so right now I have all the windows updates installed.
    • I've changed my hub recently because of connection issues but that wasn't the reason the USB's would disconnect. [It happened even when the hub was disconnected from the front port]
    • I'm using the PC without issues, I connect and disconnect external drives and the issue doesn't seem to reappear.

    Alt PC:

    • I've used it from December to mid-January.
    • I've changed to different mouses, I haven't had a disconnection issue.
    • I've had a lot of peripherals connected to that too and still no more USB issues.

    At this moment, I at least, am back to square 1.

    • I've checked voltages to make sure it's not a surcharge on the USB port(s) [fail-safe disconnections].
    • I've checked USB event history and nothing seemed off before the disconnections happened.
    • There are no same PC parts that we all use.
    • There are no same third-party apps that we all use.
    • There are no same external USB devices that we all use.

    It's weird that for me at least, out of a sudden, everything is alright now for the last 4 months - 0 disconnects.

    I think that the origin of this issue would be found in a closed environment with multiple PC's that have the same issue, cause right now the number of variables are a lot.

    Sadly I don't think I'll be of any help since I've got nothing to diagnose anymore, but I'll keep an eye on the forum and if I can answer to any of your question or just in case I'll have any leads, information, etc., I'll write.

    Good luck everyone!

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