On Apr 18, 11:03 am, "Justin" <N...@None.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "thosj" <tho...******.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1176911125.483104.166450@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>[color=green]
> > Has there been a fix for this yet? I have the same problem. I have to
> > tell it to manually install, point it to C:\Windows\System32, then it
> > installs drivers, but for something like bluetooth or a usb device, it
> > has to do it every time.[/color]
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> > How do I delete this INFCACHE.1 file? I can't seem to do it, even from
> > an elevated command prompt.[/color]
>
> You can probably delete the file while using safe mode - command prompt.
>
> However, I believe deleting the file will do you no good. That file is
> there for a reason and when you search for a driver again it will re-appear.
>
> Is this file in any place besides the INF folder in your SystemRoot? If so
> then check this regkey and remove everything but "%SystemRoot%\inf":
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DevicePath
>
> Then you can delete the file and it should not come back. If it does then
> check the regkey again. If the regkey updates again then you have an
> offending app/process that is causing this issue.[/color]

I got the file deleted by taking ownership of it and changing the
properties for full control, then I could delete it. This move
immediately fixed my problem with my USB Bluetooth dongle, now when I
try to hook to a bluetooth device, it just works where before it would
try and install the driver every time and not do it. So........I'm
good, perhaps only until I try to install some other driver!

My HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
\DevicePath only has "%SystemRoot%\inf" and I can find NO instances of
INFCACHE.1 anywhere. If one comes back when something needs a driver,
we'll deal with it at that time!! For now, I'm good.

A week or so ago I had a problem with CD and DVD RW type drives not
having a driver in Device Manager. They wouldn't install when the
system booted and just showed as CD-ROM in Explorer, in Device Manager
they showed no driver!! I had to manual install, pointing to C:\Windows
\System32 to get them to install. This is all related somehow, I
believe. But as I said, all is good FOR NOW!