Well i recently installed vista again from scratch...and initially
since this problem doesnt persists,i checked the INFCACHE.1 file,and
its size was 1636 KB !

and when the problem arises ,its size is 1KB...

so in my logic...the problem comes when the driver details from that
file gets deleted by unknown means so that its size goes down to
1KB...

this problem is so basic...how did microsoft didnt encountered this
error while in beta???


On Apr 18, 10:57 pm, thosj <tho...******.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> On Apr 18, 11:03 am, "Justin" <N...@None.com> wrote:
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> > "thosj" <tho...******.com> wrote in message[/color]
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> > > 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][/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][/color]
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> > You can probably delete the file while using safe mode - command prompt.[/color]
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> > 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.[/color]
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> > 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":[/color]
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> > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\DevicePath[/color]
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> > 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]
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> 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!- Hide quoted text -
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