I don't know if this will help or not. Have you right clicked on the program and tried "Compatibility Mode" or on the desktop icon?
 
When graphics drivers remain on the computer then they can get messed up. Have you removed the item in Device Manager and started up the computer until Windows 7 finds no drivers (and do not install them) to sort of clean out all the drivers or multiple instances of the drivers being installed (more than one time up to several times) ??
 
If you can I think you can stop Windows 7 from installing the drivers when it sees the hardware and do not install drivers until you see if multiple instances of drivers are installed ??
 
Not sure, if any of that will help but there is also Driver Verifier or just the "verifier" program that you can run also?
 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244617
 
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When graphics drivers are not fully un-installed then some drivers may remain, and at that time, Windows 7 was started until all versions of drivers were un-installed by deleting the device in Windows 7 in Device Manager until Windows 7 only came up and installed "Standard VGA" graphics drivers for the graphics card.
 
It seem though that you are running the same drivers all the time perhaps, so different versions like graphics drivers are probably not the problem, but it never hurts to check.
 
Running "verifier" in the search box may not help but, if some update from Windows 7 made the drivers incompatible, then you may just find out running "verifier" without the quotes, but then again, perhaps you just need new drivers and those have not been made so you are stuck with the original drivers from Windows, and ugh! then.
 
Something may be interfering now with the drivers and that takes more work to find out in the computer.
Right now I know it is not the same probably as graphics drivers, and if you had it where you get an error message then that may help also (which should be a setting in Windows 7 I am not sure about but if the driver crashes then turning off "automatic restart" in Windows 7 may give you an error code instead if your computer is doing any of that in the first place).
 
http://www.sevenforums.com/bsod-help-support/210693-appcrash-exception-code-c0000005.html
 
At first that may not be any error code you get, but read further down the page, and see if any applies to your problem with the driver for your unit. And since it is a Microsoft driver, then perhaps that webpage will not help at all. (??)
 
After that, ugh! I would have to think further or it may just be the drivers do not work anymore for some reason.
 
 

If you are running on USB power alone...this could be your glitch. Try using a power adapter. Hope you get it working, ol pal.

spacealf ...
When graphics drivers are not fully un-installed then some drivers may remain, and at that time, Windows 7 was started until all versions of drivers were un-installed by deleting the device in Windows 7 in Device Manager until Windows 7 only came up and installed "Standard VGA" graphics drivers for the graphics card.
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Same thing with any Windows, up until somewhere in W7 ... though I thought you did not have to worry about uninstalling/installing drivers for anything in W7-Pro, or 64bit, as far as I know.
 
This was the case with World of Warcraft, all the way up. Every month you have to uninstall the graphic drivers, go CLEAN UP THE FOLDER IN THE DRIVE (<<<<----- STRUMMY!))) and then install the new drivers.
 
Glad I don't have to do this again!
 
I'm still setting up my w7-64bit machine for music. Just got the midi working and am preparing some screen shots to see if I can get more help when I'm ready!. Thx

Of course if you are running to many USB devices you may not have the bandwidth on the USB port to run the device fully or even have it work perhaps.
 
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884470
 
The thing is between the power and the bandwidth, all USB devices share the USB port.
 
If you get up Device Manager and look for the USB controllers and right click then you can also see if  Windows 7 is limiting power until you use it - I always have the power on all the time, another automatic setting in Windows 7 that helps out laptops and notebook computers but really is not needed on a desktop computer. I usually have power settings on all the time (even on harddrive and monitor or else I turn the computer off). So going through Windows 7 and checking everything may be important also and if not in Control Panel then right clicking on Devices in Device Manager and selecting "Properties" may help to look at everything and see if the settings are the way you need them or want them to be.
 
Or here is another link I found from the lovely Microsoft (okay so a little sarcastic I suppose):
http://support.microsoft.com/fixit/
 
And about a previous post, if you have an error with the driver and you get an error code, it is probably covered by doing a search for the error code (like general error code which says about nothing really :  0x00000005 or C00000005) and looking it up.
 
 
 
 
 

 
Al, many thanks for the advice and those links, I'll let you know how I get on.

Wish I could help Steve, so I did the best thing I could and avoided adding my usual silly responses.
 
Good luck!

I haven't seen anyone else post this yet, so I'll do my part to offer a nuggat of wisdom.
 
Have you tried replacing your USB cable with a Monster USB cable?
 
[ducks and runs for cover]

   You say the pedal board worked with this computer prior? If so, what could have changed? Sometimes a stray driver from gear you may have installed before is still in the system and interferes with the new install. Even uninstalling a driver can leave traces of that setup in the system which can cause a usb system conflict.
 
 Reinstallation of Win7 has fixed driver issues for some people. But maybe you can further isolate the problem and deal with it in a more surgical way. Since the driver is "auto installed" and line 6 confirms this, then I suspect something in your usb folder is causing a conflict. I think spacealf is pointing you in the right direction.
 
  In one case I read about the usb driver from a web cam was the culprit. In your case it could be something else. The problem would seem to be something recently changed in the system.
 
 I have had good luck before with the original OS disk repair, It gives you a repair option and can run from that disk.. It searches for irregularities and repairs them. 
 
 

Well, I do not know if it is the right direction exactly when I post anything. It just had to do with graphics cards and people not totally un-installing old ones or doing a clean installation. But in my case, a person may not have that option with Windows 7 as it seems to just want to install drivers if it finds something instead of giving an option. In my case with the graphics drivers and cleaning out old ones, there were ones (a previous version) that Windows 7 had (which I did not even know where it came from) also there. But that may be different than any USB drivers for some hardware. ??
 
It may just be a lot of work that leads to nothing either being solved. Compatibility works only with some programs, but in the end I try and get the Vista drivers for the hardware to work in Windows 7 perhaps if that can be done, since the unit works in Vista.
 
Always the big question mark (and Microsoft programs not really helping all that much sometimes anyway).
 

Strammy , iz it fixeded???