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USB ports not working suddenly.. This happened when my 8 year old daughter was pulling the ipod in andout of USB for charging. Now, not weven prontier works as that is also connected by a USB port. I have changed the drivers; trieed microsoft fix of finsing in the registry, uninstall/install of USB controller etc., no solution yet.. pls help

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Did this suddenly start to occur? Were they working before? If so, it is very simple - shut down computer, remove the battery and unplug any power source, wait a couple of minutes and reassemble and power up. Wala! I read all kinds of complicated instructions, started with the simple, and problem solved.

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Hold the windows key on your keyboard and press Pause/Break key, which brings up system properties. Move to Hardware tab. Open up Hardware Devices. Look for yellow exclamation marks next to USB hub devices, right click on them (if any) and remove. then press F5 to refresh and should automatically reinstall the driver for you. Then after that run a Windows update.

My other half of the solution is if you simply can't get the USB drivers to work. Check out Ubuntu. Read more at that link to find out what is Ubuntu. It's much more user-friendly and there is little to no learning curve coming from windows XP. I have my children (ages 6,7,9,13) all using Ubuntu, which is a form of the GNU/Linux Operating System. What's great about it is it's completely free, and open-source so there are less problems with the OS compared to Windows which is proprietary software and all applications in Windows are only made to make money off the consumer. Check out the web page, read about it, download it, burn it to a CD-R and reboot. Installation is straight-forward. You can either install on a seperate partition and choose which OS you want to run at boot, or you can format the entire drive and just automatically run Ubuntu at boot. I think you'll like this solution much better, give it a shot if not permanently, just temporarily you can run from the disc you make, or install on a seperate partition. If you decide you like it, format the whole drive and just run Ubuntu straight up with no Windows.

Another great thing about Ubuntu is it's able to read Linux files, and able to open Windows files as well, such as word documents and such. It comes with it's own free word processor and spreadsheet applications called OpenOffice.Org

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Have you tried reinstalling your Operating System (OS)?
This could help.
Please remember to backup all your data before you reinstall your OS

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