Jan 10, 2019 Mouse, touchpad, and keyboard problems in Windows. Content provided by Microsoft. Applies to: Windows 10. Unplug USB cables and wait for a little while for the device driver to be unloaded by Windows, and then plug the device back in. Hardware Troubleshooter Drivers Update a device driver using Windows Update. In the search box on the. The Windows 7 installer doesn't have a built-in driver for USB 3.0. It only supports USB 2.0 devices. Microsoft ended mainstream support for Windows 7. It's unlikely that the installer will be updated to include USB 3.0 drivers. Update Keyboard Drivers. Outdated or corrupt Keyboard drivers can also cause problems. The drivers updater software program driver whiz, is fully compatible with Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP. If problems persist please contact the support for further assistance. The Windows USB Installation Tool for Windows 7 is a tool developed by Gigabyte Technology. to automate the manual steps of DISM. Instructions for the tool are at the Gigabyte Tech Daily blog. The link to this tool is provided as a courtesy to Intel customers.
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- Windows 7 can't find driver - deactivates keyboard and mouse 5 answers
For some reason, the Generic USB Keyboard driver was removed, literally, over night, from Windows.
Can someone that has Windows 7 and uses a USB Keyboard without any fancy drivers (i.e. uses Generic Windows USB Keyboard driver) go to
and post the name of the driver system files (for example 'C:Windowssystem32DRIVERi8042prt.sys')?
marked as duplicate by Dave, Heptite, Kevin Panko, Mokubai♦, warrenApr 24 '14 at 17:08
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First off, try a system restore.
If that doesn't help, this is a General Fix for USB Driver Problems
Xp Usb Keyboard Drivers
Unplug all USB devices except mouse and keyboard.
Click on Start orb, Type Advanced System settings in the search box and Click on View Advanced System Settings to go there.
Click on Advanced tab, Click on Environment Variables.
Under the window 'System variables' Click on New.
Type devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices as the variable name and type 1 as the value.
Click OK 3 times to close the windows.
Click on Start orb, Type Device Manager in the search box and Click on Device Manager in the list to go there.
Click on View, then Show hidden devices.
You will now notice that you have a list of USB devices and that some lines appear to be faded. Uninstall all the faded entries.
More detail and pictures form source: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/165554-usb-driver-general-fix-problems.html
Dave
Dave