Mouse Won't Work -- Driver Still In Memory.

I am having a strange issue I have never experienced before. I have a Wired Microsoft USB mouse which I use on my notebook when I'm at my desk. I'm having an issue where if I unplug the mouse then plug it back in, I have to restart before Vista will allow me to use it again. I have tried different USB ports, Going though a Hub, Uninstalling in Device Manager,Disabling+Enabling in Device Manager etc and nothing works. Here is what it showed under Device Manager. Any Ideas?

Nothing is psychically wrong with the Mouse and its always worked fine in the past with Vista. About a week ago I did a fresh Vista install on a new HDD and this has been happening since. I have all Updates, SP1, Latest Drivers etc.

 

Just to give u an insight into why it works after a restart >

< sorry if u knew this already...

Have you tried doing a 'update driver'?? or 'uninstall the driver' *or may be thats what u meant in ur OP?*

Edit: There are similar issues from M$ but its more for when Vista is resuming from standby...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944292/en-us >> something more similar becuase this issue is also when 'reconnecting'

 

From another place >>

See if it works.. and since I am not too sure, I would recommend instead of deleting, just cut n paste it somewhere else and reboot, see if it works... else u cud probably just put file back into the original place.

 

Alright, I'll try deleting the INFCACHE file and see if it helps. It doesn't happen every time I unplug it, But every few times.

 

Microsoft has a notoriously bad USB implementation The way they deal with removable drives, devices, everything about it is just braindead. Ever notice than when you plug a device into a different USB port it's detected as a different device? There's no sane reason for that other than a bad early-on architecture decision that they've propagated since that's the way people are used to it working now. That's what causes most of the issues.