Vista message appears - USB Device not recognized

Hi,
I have been getting the error messages "USB device not recognized" from Windows Vista.
It keeps on repeating itself sporadically.
The problem is that I do not have any USB device attach or plug to my computer.
It happens to sometimes plugged my USB Flash key device to drop some documents on my hard drive but I immediately unplugged the device after the task is done.
I used to have a Lexmark 1290 printer plug to my computer but since it was not working fine on Vista I have decided to unplug it and delete the peripheral in my printer manager.
I have installed the latest Windows Vista Update, BIOS update, and all possible drivers but I still having the messages.
Does anyone have a idea of what could be my problem?
Thanks

hi aladino00,
try this:
- connect all of your usb-devices to the notebook (printer, usb-storage)
- use this devices once (print and copy some files)
- then use the "safe remove of hardware" in your system tray and use the dialog to remove the usb-devices
restart notebook (cold reboot) and test it...
maybe there is a registry key been written that causes this behaviour...
therefor the described routine should eliminate it and make your notebook akt correctly again...

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