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thehandyman

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    Hi everyone, wondering how I can reset my usb driver cache?
    « on: September 01, 2011, 11:45:12 PM »
    My computer has 2 USB ports in the front, 2 blue USB ports on top and 4 USB ports in the back.
    (HPE h8-1022)
    I looked at my device manager and USB controllers it went like this:
    Generic USB Hub
    Generic USB Hub
    Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Controller - 1C26
    Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Controller - 1C2D
    Texas Instruments XHCI Controller
    USB Composite Device
    USB Mass Storage Device
    USB Root Hub (has a ! mark for some reason)
    USB Root Hub
    USB Root Hub

    I want to cleanup all the previous mouses and keyboards devices I put in one of the USB ports, but I don't know how to do it. So many of them I don't know which one to do. I would hate to having to resort to reformatting my computer. Thanks in advance.
    « Last Edit: September 02, 2011, 12:16:19 AM by thehandyman »

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    Re: Hi everyone, wondering how I can reset my usb driver cache?
    « Reply #1 on: September 02, 2011, 04:44:42 AM »
    ...I want to cleanup all the previous mouses and keyboards devices I put in one of the USB ports...
    There is no reason to do this.  Why do you want to do this?

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      Re: Hi everyone, wondering how I can reset my usb driver cache?
      « Reply #2 on: September 02, 2011, 09:02:56 AM »
      Just incase I find out in the future one of the drivers I installed were corrupt and I didn't know.

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      Re: Hi everyone, wondering how I can reset my usb driver cache?
      « Reply #3 on: September 02, 2011, 09:07:58 AM »

      This is a case of trying to fix things that aint broken.

      11 cheers for binary !

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      Re: Hi everyone, wondering how I can reset my usb driver cache?
      « Reply #4 on: September 02, 2011, 09:08:15 AM »
      Right clik every instance of USB roots and hubs and select remove/uninstall...
      You will recieve a warning message...ignore it.
      Re-boot...they will automatically be re-installed.
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      Re: Hi everyone, wondering how I can reset my usb driver cache?
      « Reply #5 on: September 02, 2011, 09:09:27 AM »

      Re-boot...they will automatically be re-installed.

      Yes, but how will he know if they are corrupt ??   :P
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      Re: Hi everyone, wondering how I can reset my usb driver cache?
      « Reply #6 on: September 02, 2011, 09:16:17 AM »
      Just incase I find out in the future one of the drivers I installed were corrupt and I didn't know.

      And a good question might be how you expect to know in the future.
      I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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      Re: Hi everyone, wondering how I can reset my usb driver cache?
      « Reply #7 on: September 04, 2011, 06:45:39 PM »
      You don't need to do this, but i'll tell you how anyway. Use this: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html

      Press the uninstall button on each device you want to uninstall. BUT AGAIN, YOU DON'T NEED TO!

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