Vista not detecting Nikon driver?

The symptoms you describe all point strongly to a USB problem. This could be software or hardware, but if I am following you, you can dual boot to Win7, where USB (and the camera in particular) work fine. Yes? not hardware then...

In which case, you could look into totally refreshing the USB configuration in Vista. This has been covered well on this site, can't find the link right now though.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html to see the current config.

http://hpanswers.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-refresh-and-reinstall-usb-ports.html simple reconfig.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936003 possibly relevant from MS

Does Vista SP-2 have a complete "KB" designation of its own? Because if it does, then you would just use the control panel to uninstall it, no need for a restore point being set.

This is just one of my opinionated rants but, before I'd allow my restore points to be deleted, I'd buy a bigger HDD and leave them right where they are. Sorry for that.

The only prudent deletion of restore points is usually in the event of malware recurring after attempting a cleanup.

Yeah it's not hardware issue, since I have no problem with Windows 7.


I have looked at this what you have given me;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928631/

although I have no issue in relations to USB not working via hibernation, the part below of the screenshot I took is interesting;
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5884/93047163.jpg
could it be edited or anything with registry having to do with this issue?

I'll offer the following comments

> I don't believe there's any indication your issue is misbehaving hardware.
> There's every indication your issue has to do with permissions in Windows

I also found there's many, many people who've had a similar problem.. though no solution. even including (look here) in our very own TechSpot

Just a guess.. but as mentioned before, you should start by disabling your antivirus real-time autoprotect settings. I've seen this feature interfere with normal OS function in the past and i think is a good candidate to rule out.

and to clarify, did you say you have install problems with other USB devices as well? or is it ONLY the camera??????

Try going to Control Panel->User Accounts and disable uac. Then, reboot and uninstall and reinstall the drivers.

Oh snap! It worked... and it had to do with my Nod32 antivirus, I've disabled it previously when I was trying to resolve this issue, but it automatically sets itself back on after I reboot. I guess this is the problem the whole time, but many times before it never happened before, I don't know why it acted differently this time!?!?

so happy