Actually, the idea of connecting a device (printer, hard drive, etc.) through USB is a great idea, and you don't even have to send anything to the device. As soon as you connect the USB cable Windows should pop up saying that "This device would work faster if connected through USB 2.0" if it's a USB 1.1 cable. If it's a 2.0 cable it wouldn't say anything other than "new device found"; at least in theory that's what would happen...