USB 3 not working in windows 7

I have a late 2013 macbook Air , i7 with 8MB, 512SSD. It has a Windows 7 Partition, the OSX side is fine but in Windows the USB 3 ports are not recognised as such and function as USB 2, they work ok but slow, have checked the USB drivers and most are dated 21/06/2006, apart from 2 ie USB3.0 extensive Host Controller and USB3.0 Root hub bothe dated 29/3/2013 version 2.5.0.19, and when i boot into Windows I keep getting messages to the effect the the devices could perform fater if conected to a USB3 port which they are. Any help appreciated, this is my first ftime on here. Thanks in advance

Spoke to Apple support and they basically suggest I play ping pong with Microsoft, on the basis that all works under OSX, but MS say it is up to Apple to supply the drivers for the hardware, just great. So looks like I shall continue as is for now.

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