USB Plug And Play not working

Whenever I plug a device into my USB ports, the balloon on the bottom right of the taskbar will pop up saying "Found New Hardware" and it correctly identifies the device, but doesn't install the driver. Instead, the "Found New Hardware" box will pop up, asking me to find the driver to install. This can be a pain (especially if the driver cannot be found online) However, older devices that I have previously installed on this machine before this started happeinging work fine when plugged in.

 

Here are the steps I have taken in an attempt to fix this problem:

1. Making sure plug and play is enabled

2. deleting the infcache.1

3. making sure HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion 'DevicePath' points to '%SystemRoot%\inf

4. making sure the values 'FactoryPreInstallInProgress' and 'AuditInProgress' are set to '1' under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup

5. making sure HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup 'AuditInProgress' is set to "0"

6. making sure HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup 'FactoryPreInstallInProgress' is set to "0"

7. making sure HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup 'MiniSetupInProgress' is set to "0" (this key doesn't exist on my machine)

8. making sure HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup 'Setuptype' is set to "0"

9. making sure HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup 'SystemSetupInProgress' is set to "0"

10. deleting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Factory

11. deleting sysprep (I couldn't find it on my machine, so I assume it's not on there)

 

If you need more information or need me to be clearer on anything I said, please let me know.

I'd try the MS FixIt, http://support.microsoft.com/mats/Windows_USB_diagnostics

 

Louis

Edited by hamluis, 22 March 2013 - 06:49 PM.
Changed link - Hamluis.

That's for Vista. Do you have a link for an XP version?

Changed link .

 

Louis

Ok I've tried using both the portable version and regular version and they're both giving me an error:

 

"Troubleshooting cannot continue because an error has occured

We're sorry but the program encountered an error trying to contact the server. Please try again later.

[Code 80072F8F]" 

 

My internet is fine, so I have no idea what the problem is.

Anyone?

Seemingly pertinent link on problem, http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/39025.aspx .

 

Louis

The article in the previous post doesn't address what this article does to fix the Plug n Play.  Try this article: http://voices.yahoo.com/how-fix-plug-n-play-not-working-windows-xp-12362833.html

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