Is there a way of finding out what usb outlets are i.e usb 1 or 2 ?

I borrowed my sons card reader (a lot faster than the one on my epson printer) and a caption came up and said it would download faster if plugged into a usb2 socket, I thought mine were usb2....hence the question

TIA

Some computers have a mixture of both, there is no way to tell whats what apart from plugging into a different socket.

My front usb sockets must 1 so I'll try the others and see what happens....cheers

If you look in device manager, you can see how many USB2 controllers you have.

The front ports will most likely not be USB 2, it depends on the case. The attached image is from my new Quad core vista machine, and even it has USB1 ports.

Mines not looking too good then

What motherboards that, it looks like its using generic drivers. For nvidia based boards, download the correct nforce drivers from Welcome to NVIDIA - Graphics Cards, Motherboards, Notebooks, Desktop PCs rather than the motherboard makers website as the drivers will be newer.

No enhanced only shows up once no matter how many usb2 you have. The thing is to plug in the device and view devices by connection. If it is USB2 it will appear under the enhanced option.

Altohough the device has to be USB 2 as well which a lot still are not. Most reliable test is a memory stick as nearly all are.

In addition USB2 generally has to be enabled in bios although I would expect it to come enabled I have had one machine which did not.

In additiion if you are running an orginal version of XP there was a windows fix required to enable USB 2 in windows. I believe it was added with service pack 1 as standard.

What motherboards that, it looks like its using generic drivers. For nvidia based boards, download the correct nforce drivers from Welcome to NVIDIA - Graphics Cards, Motherboards, Notebooks, Desktop PCs rather than the motherboard makers website as the drivers will be newer.

Took a bit of finding but it's a WinFast NF4UK8AA just going to search for drivers now

These are the ones for the Nforce4 ultra chipset

nForce4/500 series - Win 2000/XP