Usb Drivers

[Tina Birkeby]

Hey

Got my new notebook, - Vista home edition preinstalled. Plugged in my
SANDISK 133-30 USB bluetooth device. no driver for it. Plugged in my Joy-it
flash drive. No driver for it. Searched for the drivers everywhere. No luck.

Works fine under XP.

Backstep, or too early release?

Do somebody know what to do?

Greetings

Tina Birkeby

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Did you check with the manufacturers of the devices for Vista drivers? The
Bluetooth dongle will almost surely need them to work, the USB key might or
might not.

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[Rafal Kubiak]

Got my new notebook, - Vista home edition preinstalled. Plugged in my
SANDISK 133-30 USB bluetooth device. no driver for it. Plugged in my
Joy-it
flash drive. No driver for it. Searched for the drivers everywhere. No
luck.

Works fine under XP.

Backstep, or too early release?

Do somebody know what to do?

I know what to do, but it's a little bit complicated and a lot of work.

First method:
Install drivers from XP - if you have got possibility to acces Windows XP
folder (INF - driver description directory and SYSTEM32\DRIVERS - driver
directory). Ready boost is not working on any pendrive installed on driver
from XP.

Second method:
If you have got ati video card - install Catalist drivers and south bridge
drivers from www.amd.com
Modify registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
DevicePath key contains: %SystemRoot%\inf
Change to: %SystemRoot%\inf;%SystemRoot%\system32\DriverStore\FileRepository
Sometimes it works