USB Flash drive not appearing in My Computer or Windows Ex..

The fix below worked for me - thanks LFPJK - wtf?!

I suspect that the root cause is a conflict with another program that
senses insertion of bulk storage device - in my case Lexmark Fast Pics
was also trying to scan the inserted USB pendrive.

LFPJK;3495014 Wrote:
> TweakUI did not help this problem.
>
> But I did find a solution:
> New symptom found: The USB drive was visible when the computer was in
> safe
> mode.
>
> Solution:
> At this point I had to assume that there was some process running on
> the
> computer that was interfering with the USB Drive, so I took the
> following
> steps:
>
> 1. In safe mode, I hit cntrl-alt-del and viewed the running
> processes.
> Since the USB drive was working, I wrote down the running processes as
> a
> "safe list." The safe list were the processes that did not prevent the
> USB
> drive from appearing in My Computer and Explorer.
> 2. Reboot the machine normally.
> 3. Plug in the USB drive. Hit cntrl-alt-del and view the running
> processes.
> Now there are many more processes running than before, but many can be
> ruled
> out be already being on the safe list. Make a list of the remaining
> processes. I am going to call this list "unknown process."
> 4. Since I had already determined that the CD/DVD burning software,
> virus
> scan, security software, and dvd players were not the culprits, I
> stopped
> the software, noted which processes disappeared from the process table
> then
> moved the process from the unknown list to the safe list. If you are
> trying
> to solve this on your own computer, you will want to verify that these
> programs are not the culprits before moving them to the safe list.
> After you
> stop each program, you can verify by unplugging then plugging in the
> usb
> drive to see if the problem continues.
> 6. I then continued by going to the task bar and stopped a single
> program,
> noted which process disappeared from the table, and uplugged then
> plugged in
> the USB drive to see if it works. If it did not work, I repeated this
> process on the next item running in the task bar.
> 7. My problem happened to be the process apdproxy.exe, which is the
> photo
> downloader for Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition, but rundll32.exe
> was
> the problem for the folks at:
> http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/126083.html
> 8. I then prevented this process from starting with the computer by
> removing the line about that process from this location in the
> registry
> HKLM->Software->Microsoft->Windows->CurrentVersion->Run. FYI: CHANGE
> YOUR
> REGISTRY AT YOUR OWN RISK.
>
> I hope this helps someone from struggling with this problem for as long
> as I
> have.
>
> Good Luck!


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