Not sure what the official name for this kind of app is, but we're talking programs that have ads on websites that say "speed up your PC! download now!"
Anyway, a family member downloaded UniBlue's "Registry Booster" and installed it. When I noticed it I said "you ought not to install this kind of junk" and removed it. Nothing good normally comes from this kind of program, I said.
Ever since uninstalling it, however, USB devices are not recognised. You can plug them in but nothing happens. Devices are known good because the XP machine downstairs still works with them.
Interestingly, the USB kb/mouse still work. Just not the camera, etc.
Tried to delete various FinePix (camera) entries in HKLM/.../current control set/, to no avail. Some of them (in /enum/) can't be deleted with admin privilege anyhow. Have to mess around with group policy to get the rights to delete them, and I didn't have time.
Meanwhile, I'm taking the flak for "deleting something vital" that "I shouldn't have messed about with". My status of being the person in family to come to for tech advice is in jeopardy over some stupid scamware thing that fubared the registry, maybe :/
Any similar experiences, and or fix?
Anyway, a family member downloaded UniBlue's "Registry Booster" and installed it. When I noticed it I said "you ought not to install this kind of junk" and removed it. Nothing good normally comes from this kind of program, I said.
Ever since uninstalling it, however, USB devices are not recognised. You can plug them in but nothing happens. Devices are known good because the XP machine downstairs still works with them.
Interestingly, the USB kb/mouse still work. Just not the camera, etc.
Tried to delete various FinePix (camera) entries in HKLM/.../current control set/, to no avail. Some of them (in /enum/) can't be deleted with admin privilege anyhow. Have to mess around with group policy to get the rights to delete them, and I didn't have time.
Meanwhile, I'm taking the flak for "deleting something vital" that "I shouldn't have messed about with". My status of being the person in family to come to for tech advice is in jeopardy over some stupid scamware thing that fubared the registry, maybe :/
Any similar experiences, and or fix?
