My computer(running Windows XP sp2) suddenly stopped recognizing any of my
usb devices.
It says "No drivers are installed for this device" no matter which usb port
(of 4) that I use.
I have found that under Computer Management there is no Windows Portable
Devices option. and therefore no device manager.
does anyone have any ideas how I might fix this?
Thanks for any advice.

"TeresaS" <TeresaS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My computer(running Windows XP sp2) suddenly stopped recognizing any of my
> usb devices.
> It says "No drivers are installed for this device" no matter which usb
> port
> (of 4) that I use.
> I have found that under Computer Management there is no Windows Portable
> Devices option. and therefore no device manager.
> does anyone have any ideas how I might fix this?
> Thanks for any advice.

Roll the computer back to before the problem occurred using System Restore
and check for malware using Ad-Aware 2007 & Spybot Search and Destroy both
before and after using System Restore.
Regards Mike.

For anyone with a similar problem in the future, this is how I finally fixed
the problem. After 5-6 hours of troubleshooting, I tried someones online
suggestion to unplug the computer from power as a way to turn it off. Then
plug in the USB device, plug back in the power, then turn the computer back
on. When I did this, all of my USB devices were once again recognized. Hope
this helps someone.

"TeresaS" wrote:

> My computer(running Windows XP sp2) suddenly stopped recognizing any of my
> usb devices.
> It says "No drivers are installed for this device" no matter which usb port
> (of 4) that I use.
> I have found that under Computer Management there is no Windows Portable
> Devices option. and therefore no device manager.
> does anyone have any ideas how I might fix this?
> Thanks for any advice.