Comments on: Tips to Slim Down Vista

By: JCF

JCF — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:36:07 +0000

Just do a system restore and it will be ok. I had problems with plug and play too, but after a system restore it restored the repository folder.

By: Anirudh

Anirudh — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:55:27 +0000

http://forums.logitech.com/logitech/board/message?board.id=bluetooth&message.id=4357

Try this to recover your filerepository folder deletion!

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By: poor guy

poor guy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:31:54 +0000

There should a BIG WARNING on top of this article mentioning that “Deleting FileRepository will mess up plug&play devices”.

I deleted it and read the comments later to find out. It is too late now.

Please do people a favor. Put the warning sign!

By: okb

okb — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:04:01 +0000

Cleaning FileRepository really messed up all plug & play devices, especially USB thumb drives!!

Refer to the last entries of the setupapi.dev.log file in c:\windows\inf and you will see the failed entries which are caused by the missing inf files, which can also be found in the same folder.

They will need to be recreated with the same folder name and then it’ll be fixed.

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drivers for my USB disk and iPod - Vista Forums — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:39:34 +0000

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By: Fabian Mohren

Fabian Mohren — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:31:21 +0000

Ups – sorry, this was only Germna

Here the same in english (i’ll try my best ):

thanks for your tips, but..

Big Warning for deleting the “Downloaded Installations” – now i can’t remove Applications like VMware – becouse the create a *.msi file under this Folder – and if they can’t find this *.msi – they can’t remove or new install!

Second Warning: for deleting the FileRepository Folder – now i have Problems to install usb-sticks!

Best regards,
Fabian

By: Fabian Mohren

Fabian Mohren — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:26:41 +0000

Vielen Dank für die zahlreichen tipps.

Aber ich muss auch dringend ein paar Warnungen aussprechen – nachdem ich die genannten Verzeichnisse löschte, bekam ich beim De- bzw. Neuinstallieren von diversen Anwendungen mächtige Probelem – Bestes Beispiel: VmWare Workstation. Diese legt eine *.msi Datei unter “% SystemDrive% \ Windows \ Downloaded Installationen” ab. Wenn diese gelöscht werden – ist es nicht mehr möglich die Anwendung zu deinstallieren!! Vom “drüberinstallieren” garnicht zu sprechen.

Die nächste Warnun muss ich – wie ein paar meiner Vorredner – auf den ersten Tipp – dem löschen des “% SystemDrive% \ Windows \ System32 \ DriverStore \ FileRepository” Verzeichnisses, aussprechen. Nadem ich den gelöschte – kann ich nun keine neuen USB-Sticks mehr installieren. (Auch nach löschen und neuerstellen der ICACHE.1). Ganz ehrlich: mein Vista ist nach all den optimierungen nur noch 2000 MB “schwer” und verbraucht nur noch 400mb RAM (nach diversen optimierungen) – aber wenn ich keine USB-Sticks mehr installieren kann….weiß nicht..

Schönen Gruß,
Fabian

By: me

me — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:10:25 +0000

OK.. I figured it out.
Used 7zip and explored the vista dvd. ..
open the folder SOURCES
then the file INSTALL.WIM
the numbered directories are the different versions of vista.. ie basic, home, home premium, ultimate and a few for foreign markets like the EU that block the install of things like media player. ..
search out the directory and copy the folder somewhere safe… then work your a#* off trying to take ownership of the directory (there is a script if you don’t want to do it the hard way)…
THEN you can copy the files over…
GOOD LUCK …

By: me

me — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:04:45 +0000

HELP!!!
I uninstalled the drivers in vista and now I want them back. I can’t seem to find a way to reinstall them without reinstalling all of vista. Please help or link me to a website that hosts the default drivers.
Thanks.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:41:50 +0000

Most new hardware designed to be used with Vista does NOT come with it’s own drivers because they’re expecting the driver to already exist within vista’s file repository. Do yourself a favor, avoid a huge headache, and don’t delete the file repository!!!

By: boredofregistering

boredofregistering — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:38:19 +0000

After using “TakeOwnership” for FileRepository, still all files are write-protected. That cannot be changed.
Neither is it possible to grant full control permissions to users nor to delete any of the files in the folder.
In Vista64, the folder reclaims 2 GB.