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XP not recognizing drivers?

Today, a family member had a problem: The XP won't recoginze any USB sticks. Well, he had the problem some time, and it was annoying to always use a digital camera -- witch suprisly worked -- for temporary storage.

Well, today I found the problem: The INFCACHE.1 file, located in %WINDOWS%inf, (with %WINDOWS% usually C:WINDOWS) was somehow corrupted.

The solution: Deleting the file, followed by an reboot. Afterwards, it will be restored by Windows, and then all the stuff is working like a charm.

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Ubuntu on WindowsMarketplace is perfect.

If you know windowsmarketplace.com, you know, that site is operated from Mircodoft. If you know Microsoft , you know that they are in favour in free operating system if its related to bashing them or threatening them. But not anymore? Look at the picture:

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