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Failure of Automatic Installation of USB Device Drivers on Vista

Posted at 10:33 pm - Thursday, March 15th, 2007 (About 25 Weeks ago)
Posted in Fr3d, Software, University, Windows | 1 Comment on "Failure of Automatic Installation of USB Device Drivers on Vista" »

Thanks to Windows Vista screwing something up on the install, every time I plugged a USB (or firewire) device into my computer, it would decide it couldn’t find any drivers for it, and asked me to tell it to manually search for the drivers (after which point they did eventually install)… So after installing about 3-5 drivers for a simple USB flash drive, it would work.

However a friend of mine let me borrow his Experts-Exchange account in our Design Workshop lecture today at Uni to search their database, and I found someone with the same problem as I had:

The solution is to copy the C:\Windows\inf folder from another fully working Vista installation over the top of the original*.

I’ve tried two other USB flash drives, and both worked within seconds of me plugging them in.

Yet another Microsoft product declared “finished” before it’s ready… Anyone else have/had this problem?

- Fr3d

* I actually renamed the original, and then copied the other computer’s inf folder, as Vista wouldn’t let me overwrite the folder


iTunes and Vista? Not really…

Posted at 6:25 pm - Thursday, March 1st, 2007 (About 27 Weeks ago)
Posted in Apple, Fr3d, Software, Windows | 4 Comments on "iTunes and Vista? Not really…" »

iTunes doesn’t seem to play very well with Vista yet…

Oops!

And that was a fresh start of iTunes, after it refused to play anything… Everything would work, it would even tell me it was playing… but no sound came out, and it didn’t move the progress bar.

It works well *most* of the time, but it crashes a lot more than it used to do when I had XP :(

I refuse to use anything else though; I’ll just wait until a patch is released :D

Edit: Seems to be working fine now - I think it was partially caused by a dodgy plugin.