Acer Aspire not reading/installing drivers for USB.

James Tech

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Jan 11, 2014
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Hi, Good day everyone.

I've come across a very strange and annoying issue when trying to install the drivers for my USB's and external drives.
Everything was working perfectly before I commited the crime of leaving my computer at my brother's house. Well, it seems that installing something called "websearches" was a good idea
to Him. After that the USB's stopped working and everytime I try to install the usb drivers I get errors such as "Device software not successfully installed" or it just doesn't even show anything after puting the USB in.

Anyways, I've try everything and yet the problem is still there.
I uninstalled "websearches"
Cleaned the registry
Tried to manually install the drivers
Downloaded the Acer driver manger
Checked the device manager and the USB has that exclamation point, but when trying to troubleshoot, windows shows that I need to install a driver for it. After I search for it all it says is:
"Windows found driver software for your device but encountered a problem when trying to install it "
"Access denied"

Acer aspire 5750-6966
Windows 7 64 bit
i3-2350
4 GB DDR3
500 GB HDD

Any help would be highly appreciated. Thank you.