How to fix my PC's USB ports when they don't work? - Step by step guide

You happened to connect USB devices  computer and the USB device is not recognized? Don't worry, here we will teach you how to fix your PC's USB ports when they are not working, with three simple solutions that you can do yourself.

Step 1 to repair the USB ports

The first thing you need to do is enter the USB memory; If you don't see it now, you need to open File Explorer or Windows Explorer. Once you are here, right click on 'this team' and then 'properties'. A screen will open where you will select "Device Manager" and the drivers for your computer will appear. What you should do is download the missing drivers to your laptop or PC.




Updating your PC's driver or driver might be what you need to fix the USB port problem, or it might even be that you haven't installed the driver for it.

How to fix my PC's USB ports when they don't work? - Step by step guide

That being the case, go to the button that says "search for changes", leave it saved and automatically the computer will start looking for all the new changes it has had; and if memory is inserted, it will search for the driver that needs that USB memory.

Step 2, go to the USB drivers

If the above step didn't help you to repair your PC's USB ports here we have option 2, you also need to go to Device Manager and uninstall the drivers, then you need to download and install the drivers one by one, now you just have to restart the computer and the problem will be solved.

Having said that in another practical way, it would be to go to "device manager", then look for the option that says "universal serial bus controllers", once inside, remove the counters from the pen drive and uninstall all those that appear under that option.




You won't restart it until you've uninstalled all those drivers, in case you have them. And once uninstalled, the you will give the yes to restart the computer, and then you will be left without the universal serial drivers, they have all been deleted.

Once that's done, restart your computer and automatically the computer will start detecting the necessary drivers and it could be that this will fix the driver problem.

Step 3, final step in the Windows Control Panel

For the last step, what you should do is go to the configuration " control panel »And you will look for administrative tools and look for the option that says" services "you have to right click on services and then run as administrator.

This way you will be able to observe the services you have available, the ones that are running on your computer right now, being there you need to check that some services are started.

If you want to open the services directly you can do it with the following keyboard shortcuts, press the "Windows + R" keys at the same time, the run window appears where you have to enter "services.msc" and give to accept and with that shortcut you can also enter the services option.


How to fix my PC's USB ports when they don't work? - Step by step guide

What you will do now is to verify that the following services are running: «Rilevamento hardware shell» e «plug and play», these two services must be started and running; If you have stopped it, as might be the case, you simply need to right-click and get started.


With this, it will automatically start running and must always be running. The same step you need to follow with the following service  "Plug and play". If for any reason you've disabled it, launch it and that's it.


If you have older versions of Windows such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, these services may appear as "logical disk management services", universal plug and play device host, removable storage media.


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