I'm actually working on another person's machine, it's a fully updated Xp home Vaio with 512 Mb of Ram, plenty of harddrive space, and a fully working internet connection.
His computer appeared to be "slow lately" so I was firing up my flash drive with it's bag of tricks. No go. Add new hardware came up, refused to find new drivers even when pointed manually to /system32 or /system, nothing.
So I uninstalled the USB devices, having read that works (apparently, no other new USB devices worked for this guy)
The USB hubs will not reinstall either. Nor will a simple flash card reader I removed through device manager. Windows update finds nothing, rebooting does nothing. He has only one harddrive (with an unmounted partition for system backups, must be a Vaio thing) and one DVD drive.
Software: He had a spyware scanner from TrendMicro which I replaced with windows defender. During this process, I also installed AVG antivirus. No firewalls, or other odd security software at all.
Windows Xp Home will not allow new drivers or hardware to be installed.?live update
try finding the drivers for the laptop and see if it has drivers for its USB devices... if this thing doesnt help, guess you will have to reinstall windows to know for sure that its not an OS problem but rather a hardware issue.
Windows Xp Home will not allow new drivers or hardware to be installed.?norten
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