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I recently had the following problem: When inserting a USB drive (or any other USB hardware), Windows Vista did not find its drivers automatically and asked me to insert the CD that came with the hardware. The temporary solution was to ask Windows to search in “c:\Windows\System32″. However, although Windows did find its drivers there, and installed the device correctly, it did not remember that path and it had to be given every time (and often several times) a new pen drive was inserted.

Now, I finally found the solution and just wanted to write it down in case I (or anyone else) should ever need it again. The solution was found on this page and said:

XP asks for drivers or just want to install new hardware

XP comes with drivers for USB mass storage. If it asks for drivers then it has forgotten where they are…
Start the Registry Editor (Run -> Regedit). Check if under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft
\Windows\CurrentVersion the item ‘DevicePath’ points to ‘%SystemRoot%\inf’. Additional items, separated by semikolons, are ok but ‘%SystemRoot%\inf’ has to be one of them.
Then delete the file C:\WINDOWS\inf\infcache.1 - XP will recreate it.
Another thing to check is if the values ‘FactoryPreInstallInProgress’ and ‘AuditInProgress’ are set to ‘1′ under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Factory
. They should be 0 or non present.

Although this was written for Windows XP, it worked on Vista. Specifically deleting C:\WINDOWS\inf\infcache.1 was what made the trick for me.

I recieved the following mail a couple of weeks back: [The name has been changed to protect the presumed guilty.]

FROM: Nando C R <xyz@xyz.com>
TO: xyz@akselvoll.net
DATE: Apr 25, 2007 12:54 PM
SUBJECT: Consulta

Hola Magnus,

He estado viendo tu web y he visto que eres programador en .NET y me preguntaba si estaría interesado o conoce a alguien para realizar un pequeño proyecto de fin de carrera, por motivos laborales me es imposible el poder realizarlo yo y estoy buscando un programador que quiera ayudarme, evidentemente será pagado adecuadamente. Muchas gracias

It basically says:

Hi Magnus. I have been reading your web page and have seen that you are a .NET programmer and I was asking myself if you or anyone you know would be interested in doing a small, final university project for me, since I, due to my work, will be unable to do so myself, and I am looking for a programmer that would like to help me, that obviously will be paid adequately. Many thanks.

[I have tried my best to write it in the same style as he did.]

Yes, “Nando”, I would love to do your project for you. Just send me the contact information for your professor and I will contact him directly so that he can explain me the details.