A long time ago I did some hack to the registry to fix a broken install on a piece of software. I apparently should have unhacked the registry when I was done. I don't remember what I did back then.
Since then, however, my plug and play installation or new devices doesn't work. If I tell it to install the hardware automatically it fails. If I tell it I know where it shoud look to install the drivers, it gives me the option of looking at removeable media or a location on the disk (which I can browse to).
This location it is looking in by default is C:/. However, I can get it to work if I type in or browse to C:/i386. It then finds the correct files and starts to install the software.
Now, about halfway through this process it asks if I want to run the installation program for the hardware, and I say yes. Then, almost without fail it will indicate it can't find some part of the windows program, and shows that it is looking in c:/i386/i386 to find what it needs. If I edit this path to be just c:/i386 instead, it completes the install successfully.
Does anyone know how I can fix this? I'm sure some registry entry someplace is pointing the wrong place, but have no clue which one it could be.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Since then, however, my plug and play installation or new devices doesn't work. If I tell it to install the hardware automatically it fails. If I tell it I know where it shoud look to install the drivers, it gives me the option of looking at removeable media or a location on the disk (which I can browse to).
This location it is looking in by default is C:/. However, I can get it to work if I type in or browse to C:/i386. It then finds the correct files and starts to install the software.
Now, about halfway through this process it asks if I want to run the installation program for the hardware, and I say yes. Then, almost without fail it will indicate it can't find some part of the windows program, and shows that it is looking in c:/i386/i386 to find what it needs. If I edit this path to be just c:/i386 instead, it completes the install successfully.
Does anyone know how I can fix this? I'm sure some registry entry someplace is pointing the wrong place, but have no clue which one it could be.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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