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Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP?

From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android, uk.comp.homebuilt, microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Subject Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP?
Date 2016-09-13 11:24 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <nr95o5$175$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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pamela wrote:

> 
> I looked for setupapi.log on my XP system but can't find it anywhere 
> on my hard drive.  Google suggests it is in C:\windows\inf\ but there 
> is no .log files there at all.
> 

C:\WINDOWS\setupapi.log

Open Notepad and navigate there.
Or you can try this from Command Prompt.

    notepad C:\WINDOWS\setupapi.log

The entry on the end of mine looks like this. I only copied
this to show you the date stamp is the first line of a stanza.

[2016/08/25 10:45:02 980.11 Driver Install]       <=== Beginning of a stanza

#-019 Searching for hardware ID(s): storage\volume
#-018 Searching for compatible ID(s): storage\volume
#-198 Command line processed: C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
#I022 Found "STORAGE\Volume" in C:\WINDOWS\inf\volume.inf; Device: "Generic volume"; Driver: "Generic volume"; Provider: "Microsoft"; Mfg: "Microsoft"; Section name: "volume_install".
#I023 Actual install section: [volume_install]. Rank: 0x00000000. Effective driver date: 07/01/2001.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_SELECTBESTCOMPATDRV.
#I063 Selected driver installs from section [volume_install] in "c:\windows\inf\volume.inf".
#I320 Class GUID of device remains: {71A27CDD-812A-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F}.
#I060 Set selected driver.
#I058 Selected best compatible driver.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_INSTALLDEVICEFILES.
#I124 Doing copy-only install of "STORAGE\REMOVABLEMEDIA\7&36B31021&0&RM".
#-166 Device install function: DIF_REGISTER_COINSTALLERS.
#I056 Coinstallers registered.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_INSTALLINTERFACES.
#-011 Installing section [volume_install.Interfaces] from "c:\windows\inf\volume.inf".
#I054 Interfaces installed.
#-166 Device install function: DIF_INSTALLDEVICE.
#I123 Doing full install of "STORAGE\REMOVABLEMEDIA\7&36B31021&0&RM".
#I121 Device install of "STORAGE\REMOVABLEMEDIA\7&36B31021&0&RM" finished successfully.

You will notice that it made a reference to an INF file.
The INF files are stored in C:\WINDOWS\inf and are
text files. For example "oem23.inf" is a renamed file
that might be used to install my network chip. In the case
of the MTP problem you're working on, apparently no rename
is involved, since "wpdmtp.inf" is a system file. Just as
"usbport.inf" is for a USB port. The USB now uses generic
Microsoft "class" drivers. Microsoft wrote those drivers
(with help from manufacturers on "quirks"). Third part drivers
are renamed systematically to "oemXX.inf" to prevent
name collisions by bad name choices of the manufacturer.
Microsoft knows the names of the INF files it wrote,
so they will not collide and don't need renaming.

Using the correct setting for File Explorer and the View Options,
allows looking in "hidden" folders, allows seeing system files
and so on. The default File Explorer settings are pretty
useless, and one of the first things a user has to fix.
Like, fixing it so you can see the file extension,
is very important...

    Paul

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How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-09-09 08:42 +0100
  Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2016-09-09 08:35 -0400
    Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> - 2016-09-10 10:27 +0100
    Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-09-10 11:37 +0100
      Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2016-09-10 14:33 +0100
        Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-15 08:36 +0200
          Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2016-09-15 09:16 -0400
      Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2016-09-10 10:00 -0400
        Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-09-12 21:35 +0100
        Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-09-12 21:39 +0100
          Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2016-09-12 20:00 -0400
            Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-09-13 12:54 +0100
              Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2016-09-13 11:24 -0400
                Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-11-23 15:32 +0000
                Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2016-11-23 17:00 -0500
        Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-09-12 21:47 +0100
  Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Mike Tomlinson <mike@jasper.org.uk> - 2016-09-10 17:27 +0100
    Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2016-09-10 14:01 -0400
    Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-09-11 14:49 +0100
      Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Chronos <usenet@chronos.org.uk> - 2016-09-12 10:41 +0100
      Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-09-12 21:49 +0100
  Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Robin <rbw0@hotmail.com> - 2016-09-10 22:26 +0100
    Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-09-12 21:33 +0100
      Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2016-09-12 20:12 -0400
        Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-09-13 13:02 +0100
          Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2016-09-13 11:36 -0400
  Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2016-09-15 08:36 +0200
  Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Gene Malvern <gmalvern@demon.co.uk> - 2016-11-22 15:26 -0700
    Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? pamela <invalid@nospam.com> - 2016-11-23 15:24 +0000
      Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Gene Malvern <gmalvern@demon.co.uk> - 2016-11-23 13:47 -0700
        Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? "Bill in Co" <surly_curmudgeon@earthlink.net> - 2016-11-23 14:40 -0700
          Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Gene Malvern <gmalvern@demon.co.uk> - 2016-11-23 15:32 -0700
      Re: How to reinstall Android driver on WinXP? Gene Malvern <gmalvern@demon.co.uk> - 2016-11-23 15:49 -0700

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