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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')?
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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
- 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
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