Comments on Pete & Laura's World: How to fix Vista driver cache

This worked, fixed my mouse problems with my new l...

2009-11-01T23:51:07.698-05:00

This worked, fixed my mouse problems with my new laptop in seconds after I had previously spent hours tinkering around with the settings. Thanks so much for your help!

I'm still a little confused. I saved the file as a...

2009-10-31T22:35:10.767-04:00

I'm still a little confused. I saved the file as a .bat and ran the program and then I restarted the computer but my USB mouse still doesn't work.

Can you explain in more detail or have a video explanation somewhere? It's a pain not being able to use my Logitech mouse anymore and I hate using the touchpad.

Wow.... after dealing with the hardware wizard pop...

2009-10-20T02:59:53.651-04:00

Wow.... after dealing with the hardware wizard popping up every time I plug in a device for a few months, it finally got the point where I couldn't deal with it any longer. I couldn't use my wacom tablet for a project, even after reinstalling the driver.

This totally saved me, thanks!

I was unable to update my Intel Matrix drivers, an...

2009-07-28T00:29:16.453-04:00

I was unable to update my Intel Matrix drivers, and my Blackberry and Garmin GPS unit would also fail at the driver installation. I created the batch file, rebooted my PC and ran it. Sure enough, this resolved the issue. THANK YOU!!! BTW, I'm running Vista 64bit with SP2

You are the man. EVERY morning, I would have to go...

2009-07-16T12:38:18.570-04:00

You are the man. EVERY morning, I would have to go through the process of reinstalling my video driver.

I haven't been able to use a flash drive for month...

2009-05-25T02:12:41.742-04:00

I haven't been able to use a flash drive for months and it has been such a pain! thanks!

I was minutes away from re-installing Vista from s...

2009-04-12T15:16:00.000-04:00

I was minutes away from re-installing Vista from scratch....thanks so much for this, worked like a charm...

i saxed this bat file for future. but i accidenlty...

2009-03-16T02:02:00.000-04:00

i saxed this bat file for future. but i accidenlty ran it. Now NONE of my usb drivers are uptodate and i cannot find updates for them. YES i tried manually to update no use and i tried to find online no use so far. Perhaps you could firect us as to where the backup file is. My sys back up was on a HDD but of course NONE of the usb devices work. And i recommended this to many friends in a forum.

Oh my goodness, that's amazing.THANK YOU!!

2009-01-29T15:58:00.000-05:00

Oh my goodness, that's amazing.

THANK YOU!!

Sorry, how do you do the following action (the one...

2009-01-14T18:20:00.000-05:00

Sorry, how do you do the following action (the one Henson mentioned):

Point the Update Driver wizard to:
c:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\

thanks,
Jaime

Thank you very much Peter, you saved my life. Afte...

2009-01-06T01:42:00.000-05:00

Thank you very much Peter, you saved my life.

After rebooting my laptop due to the unresponsiveness of Vista, I lost the connection to wireless keyboard and mouse. I spend a day to look for a solution from Microsoft support site and numerous technical pages without any success. Your batch file and a reboot fixed it for me.

I cannot believe that something discovered in 2007 is

Thanks!have a PC running Vista with SP1 which had ...

2009-01-04T14:25:00.000-05:00

Thanks!

have a PC running Vista with SP1 which had problems with a Netgear WG111T USB WiFi adaptor, the Netgear utility wouldn't run and there were occasional blue screens, typically when trying to hibernate the system, reporting an error in WG11TND5.SYS. Attempts to re-install the driver gave an error along the lines of "name is already in use as either a service name or a service

OMG--you just ended a 48 hour nightmare! My probl...

2008-12-27T16:21:00.000-05:00

OMG--you just ended a 48 hour nightmare! My problem was much deeper--I couldn't boot into my other operating system because the driver cache entry for "generic volume" became corrupt, and Vista wouldn't allow me to mount and fix that drive...and it wouldn't even let me manually point it to the inf. I was about to delete the other partition and start from scratch...BUT NO LONGER! THANK YOU!

Nothing has worked for me so far...Anyone has anot...

2008-11-17T11:35:00.000-05:00

Nothing has worked for me so far...

Anyone has another solution?

Thank you very much! been having this problem a lo...

2008-11-11T16:03:00.000-05:00

Thank you very much! been having this problem a long time now... it´s the first time i can transfer more than 3 albuns to my jump drive...

This helped me a lot too! Although I had to do on...

2008-11-08T01:25:00.000-05:00

This helped me a lot too! Although I had to do one more step,

Point the Update Driver wizard to:
c:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\

I tried this script on Vista SP1 and it really scr...

2008-11-01T13:19:00.000-04:00

I tried this script on Vista SP1 and it really screwed up my computer. Now no drivers will load. It says "Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it". "The system cannot find the file specified". Now none of the built-in Windows drivers can install. Restoring the backups doesn't work either, and SFC /scannow can't fix it.

Awesome! Thanks!

2008-09-03T00:26:00.000-04:00

Awesome! Thanks!

simply genius

2008-08-08T22:54:00.000-04:00

simply genius

What about fixing the same issue in XP?

2008-08-04T00:30:00.000-04:00

What about fixing the same issue in XP?

Finally Someone with a little Brains!! Thanks for...

2008-08-03T14:07:00.000-04:00

Finally Someone with a little Brains!! Thanks for the fix!!

Thanks so much i had the same problem when trying ...

2008-08-01T23:09:00.000-04:00

Thanks so much i had the same problem when trying to plug in any device i had, but now it all works. THANKS SOO MUCH

Woohoo, finally this works. Thank you so fucking m...

2008-07-26T12:02:00.000-04:00

Woohoo, finally this works. Thank you so fucking much =).
I love ya!

THANKS so much! like allen i've been struggling to...

2008-05-07T02:33:00.000-04:00

THANKS so much! like allen i've been struggling to solve my vista-mouse problem for days. Your solution is so easy. What i did:
1. create the batch file, just name it anything with .bat and i saved it on my desktop.
2. right click and run it as administrator
3. reboot
4. with PS/2 mouse, it will immediately work. for USB might need to manualy search for drivers again.

i know this is quite a bit later, but i used this ...

2008-04-14T14:22:00.000-04:00

i know this is quite a bit later, but i used this a couple months ago and it worked, but just recently a vista update (either (KB938371)or (KB890830)) and this causes my computer to turn of fine,and i can still access its files through my network, but as soon as the update came i could not use any usb devices at all anywhere, so i had to restore with a recovery, the only culprate i can think of