I’ve noticed this before, but since I just bought a new USB hub I was able to reconfirm. With science. Windows apparently treats every USB device/port combo as a unique device for which it needs to install drivers (which also requires searching the great driver database in the cloud). I plug my keyboard into port 1, tick tock tick tock, the driver is installed. Unplug, plug it into port 2, tick tock tick tock all over again. It’s the same keyboard that was plugged into port 1 seven seconds ago! It’s the same hub! Why does it need a special driver? It doesn’t, of course, but Windows still insists on searching for a new driver even though it looked less than thirty seconds ago. Plugging the keyboard back into port 1 doesn’t trigger a search, of course. Now it remembers! Why are these lookups being cached with a key that involves the port? Isn’t the whole point of USB that I can plug anything into any port?