[staley4ever]

My USB ports suddenly stopped working> The camera (plugged into the side), and the printer plugged into the back. I have an ACER laptop Aspire 1500. Windows Vista Home Premium, HP Deskjet 1300 printer, and Razor camera phone. They worked fine until the day before yesterday.

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Hello staley4ever and welcome to geeks to go!

I apologize for the extended wait. If you haven't resolved your issue yet, have you tried using system restore to a point before you started encountering the issue?

Regards,

Ax

[Ax238]

Hello staley4ever and welcome to geeks to go!

I apologize for the extended wait. If you haven't resolved your issue yet, have you tried using system restore to a point before you started encountering the issue?

Regards,

Ax

[staley4ever]

Yes I have. Someone told me that windows automatic update downloads drivers and that may be causing the problem. However the PC says all drivers are working properly.
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[Ax238]

Check to see if any updates were made when you started experiencing the problems. You can look at the Windows Update History:

• Click to Start | Control Panel | Classic View | Windows Update.
• Along the top portion, click View update history.
• Click Installed Updates
• You can sort the updates by Name, Status, Type, or Date. You can also right-click each update and select View Details to access the details for that update.

Uninstall a Windows Update in Vista | Technipages

You can also check out the following MS KB articles:
Advanced troubleshooting tips for general USB problems in Windows XP
Cumulative update rollup for Windows Vista

Regards,

Ax