Recently, I was directed to the USB Instrument Control Tutorial. I was at the point where you use the driver development wizard and got stuck. Windows XP won't stop installing the generic driver for my USB device (a game controller) and won't allow me to use my newly created driver so I can use NI-MAX. My goal is to communicate with Labview using the game controller as an input device, by the way. After looking around at some websites, I tinkered with the services in the system by adjusting the Plug and Play service and the Shell Hardware Detection service and somehow got it to be recognized as an NI-Instrument. Now I can't get back to that point. Basically, I'm asking if there is any way to access the wizard in XP or override it so that it won't automatically install the generic driver. Any other suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

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I don't get an error or something, the wizzard finishes as it should be and i can choose the created inf file. I can execute exactly the same steps as it is mentioned in the tutorial. The only problem I have, I can't see the device in the measurement & automation tool, so I assumed I am not able to use in in LV.

I have found today a LV libaray from the supplier, so I am able to run it (Sorry, I should had post it), but i thought I have to see the device in the M&A tool to run corect.

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