If you’re not comfortable with the registry, don’t do this!

Solution:

1. In the run command (Start menu bar) type “regedit” to bring up the Registry Editor.

2. In Registry Editor, navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersion

3. In the details pane, double-click DevicePath.

4. Add a semi-colon to end of the existing text, and then add %SystemRoot%System32. The result should be similar to:

%SystemRoot%inf;%SystemRoot%System32

Do not remove the %SystemRoot%inf file path from the DevicePath registry entry.

5. Click OK to save the new value, and then close Registry Editor.

6. Open device manager, uninstall all unknown devices (right click, uninstall) so they all disappear from the list, then use the icon at the top to “Scan for Hardware Changes.” You’ll get a prompt to locate device drivers, click it, and you’re done.

Enjoy! Let’s hope Microsoft fixes this oversight soon.

Spread this far and wide folks, people need to know about this…
I dug it up from:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=311f4be8-9983-4ab0-9685-f1bfec1e7d62&DisplayLang=en

Under the document “Step by Step Guide to Device Driver Signing and Staging.doc” pgs 48-49.

Cheers,
Naresh V

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