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No USB driver for Win7 on an HP Envy h8-1414
I clean installed Windows 7 on a HP Envy Hp-1414 that came with Window 8 installed. Everything went well by following the guides offered by Teog and Brink.
That is until I tried to use the front USB ports. They would not recognize any sort of USB device I plugged into them.
I looked at Computer Management/Devices and found the Universal USB Driver was not installed. No Driver is what I remember the message to be. So I looked all over the web and could not find a Win7 or Vista driver that would work. Of course HP did not have a driver to either Win7 or Vista. I even spent some money and got what was supposed to be a Universal USB driver from Driver Update. At least, it was the one they recommended when the said mine was out of date. It would not install. I got a message from the installer that said the driver didn't meet minimum requirements. Go figure!
When Win8 was on the machine the front ports worked just fine.
Has anyone any idea how I can solve the driver problem?
Thank you.