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This might or might not be related to the difficulty described here, but I've had mysterious standard usb devices not working on windows before where the problem was unresponsive Windows update server.
That doesn't make much sense, but when Windows detects a new device, (or an old device in a different port.) by default, it tries to check against Windows update database for a new Driver. Most of the time, this is transaparently quick, and as the device is standard, nothing needs to be downloaded, and Windows just adds the device. I have seen cases where this check gets stuck, and even rebooting the computer doesn't necessarily 'unstick it.'. Windows will just refuse to finish adding the device until the process completes.
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