Category Archives: Windows xp troubleshooting

‘This Hardware Cannot Be Installed’ Error

By | 5 November 2009

Recently my PC (running on Windows XP) started having problems with my USB flash drives (actually all USB flash drives as I found out later). My PC can detect them but can’t use them. In the Device Manager, they were correctly listed but with an exclamation mark next to it meaning error. I tried to… Read More: ‘This Hardware Cannot Be Installed’ Error »

Solution To “MMC could not create the snap-in. The snap-in might not have been installed correctly.”

By | 4 November 2009

I’m using a Windows XP and tried to open the Device Manager today. To my surprise, I got a “MMC could not create the snap-in” error screen instead (pic):I recalled that 2 weeks ago I encountered the exact same problem after I ran a third party ‘Registry Cleaner’ software to fix some device problems my… Read More: Solution To “MMC could not create the snap-in. The snap-in… »