Vista - Plug and Play service--Vista Home Premium....

New out of the box install on an Everex 3502. All went smooth, setup vista,
a linksys router and office 2003. moved data from a san disk cruzer. worked
well for half a day, then the enter computer ground to halt. VERY slow.
things would open & close, but it took 15 min. to open one email. task mgr
shows cpu spiked @ 100% utilization. was able to shut down, boot to safe
mode a few dozen times and start disabling/enabling services until I found
the one causing the slowness.; the plug & play service. through the same
set of steps, I did confiirm disabling the PNP service resolves the problem
(the computer is able to boot, logon and start without problems or slowness);
however, because multiple other services are dependent on the PNP service
thinks like the audio, printer an USB ports do not work.

A few questions;

Is there any way to remove/reinstall the PNP service alone?

Could the SAND Disk Cruzer flash drive caused a problem (corrupting the PNP
or other servce?). When the SAN disk was inserted, on driver did not
install, but the disk worked. This is a U3 disk . I'm not real familiar
with the U# standard, but did remember some boot problems with some computers
after a SAN disk was used.
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Thanks.......Scott

U3 is not compatible with Vista. The whole concept is software driven, and
there are no plans by SanDisk to make it Vista compatible.

I just formatted my SanDisk Micro and use it as a "normal" USB drive. It is
detected and works fine with the drivers provided by Vista.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)


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U3 is compatible with Vista, generally. It's just that SanDisk's U3
installer is not stated to be Vista compatible as some of the batch numbers
of certain models have not been made compatible yet, and may never be.

My SanDisk Cruzer Titanium's batch number is within this range of
incompatible units, but according to my correspondence with them, the latest
installer actually does work for most people using Vista.

My one works fine as a non-U3 flash drive, but there is an error shown in
one of its entries in Device Manager.

ss.