Windows 7 HP Device manager issue

[David Downing]

A while back I uninstalled HP client security and HP device access manager, ever since I done that I can no longer access USB device such as thumb drives or external hard drives. I tried reinstalling both, client security installs but now won't uninstall... HP device Access Manger errors out during install.

I tried the CMD commands to takeown/icals and it says it can't do that... The drive was able to be seen before removing those HP products. Anyone know of another way to fix this issue?

 

[David Downing]

After months of trying to resolve this found a way by searching on how to fix the install error rather than fix USB access

After fixing the install and reinstalling I now have access to USB once more...

MS FixIt Tool MS Installer Cleanup Utility from microsoft support site