USB Devices won't appear in My Computer

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I have a digital camera on a docking station and a collection of USB flash
drives that will not register in My computer when they are connected. My PC
is 3.2 Ghz running XP-SP2 Pro with 2G of ram. The detection chime sounds when
I plug in the device, but it never appears as accessible in My Computer.

When I use those devices on a laptop (same approx. speed , RAM & exact same
OS), every one of them connects, the dirver is loaded the first time it's
attached, and it registers and opens a directory window in each successive
use.

Any ideas, anyone?
 
USB device not showing up in My Computer

Here is one possible solution, just open a new text document enter the
following text or copy&paste it:

@echo off
setlocal
set
key1=HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E980-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
set
key2=HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
call :quiet>nul 2>&1
endlocal
goto :EOF
:quiet
REG DELETE %key1% /V UpperFilters /F
REG DELETE %key1% /V LowerFilters /F
REG DELETE %key2% /V LowerFilters /F
REG DELETE %key2% /V UpperFilters /F

rename the file FixUSBKey.bat afterwards click on the file (assuming you
remember where you saved it) restart windows. For me this fixed the problem
described in these threads.
I cannot take credit for this I found it after hours of frustrating
searches. It fixes a corrupt file in windows and may be your salvation. Good
luck :~)
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