It was a compatibility issue for me. I was unable to open a setup.exe file. How I fixed it: 1. Right-click on the file, then properties. Go to compatibility and tick the 'Run this program in compatibility mode' choosing the windows that you have. Just in case I ticked run as administrator. Worked for me. Logitech Options.exe will not open on Windows 10 I purchased the Logitech MX Master 2S for work - the ability to remap buttons in different applications would be very useful for me. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts and over 1 hour on the phone with Logitech Support, I cannot install Logitech Options - the.exe file will not open?
'Nothing happens when I plug my USB flash drive into the USB port. It's showing up nowhere and Windows doesn't even prompt any error message. How can I find or open USB drive in this case?'
Let's clarify that solutions to such an invisible USB device problem on this page vary from those of computer not detecting or recognizing a USB flash drive, which is usually with some supplementary information. The informative messages are as follows.
'USB device malfunctioned and not recognized' in Windows system tray icon
File system displays as RAW in Windows Disk Management
'Unallocated space' in Windows Disk Management
'Unknown device' in Windows Device Manager
As a matter of fact, we've already composed a lot of articles based on the common USB problems, each of the problems is with a corresponding error prompt, which enables us to rectify the problem in a clear direction. But this time we just get lost, it simply displays nothing when you plug in your USB flash drive into a Windows 10/8/7 PC or laptop!
What're the reasons
You plug your USB drive into your computer, and nothing happens. Human errors and hardware issues are taken as two major reasons why your USB fails to work fine like it used to do.
1. Human errors
Abruptly unplug the USB device without safely ejecting the last time you used in on your computer.
As a result, external hard drive not recognized after unplugging
2. Hardware issues
The USB drive is broken and dead There's a problem with the USB port There is a problem with the USB driver The USB drive isn't properly formatted
What're the fixes
Please strictly follow our advice each by each to fix the issue 'nothing happens when plugging in USB'. It will save you a great deal of time and energy to exclude the unaffected factors, identify the real causes and make your USB flash drive show up in Windows Explorer, Windows Disk Management, and Windows Device Manager eventually.
Stage One
1. With your USB device plugged in, go to 'Start/Search' in Windows PC and type devmgmt.msc. 2. Right-click the 'devmgmt' results and 'Run As Administrator'. 3. In the 'Elevated Device Manager', do you see any devices with yellow flags? Or under 'Universal Serial Bus Controllers', do you see an Unknown Device? if so, right-click it and 'Uninstall' it, remove the device from the computer and restart the computer. 4. Once you log in, plug in the device and you should get new hardware found.
Stage Two
1. Enable the Hidden Administrator user account, log out of your user profile and log in as the Admin.
Do you have the same issues? If that solved the problem, then your user profile has corruption.
2.Go to Control Panel/User Accounts, create a new user account with admin rights and copy all of your user files over to the new user and log into that account. Or, try to fix a corrupted user profile.
Stage Three
1. Go to 'Start/Search' and type CMD. 2. Right-click the CMD icon and Run As Administrator. 3.In the Elevated Command Prompt, type sfc /scannow and press enter. This will replace any missing system files.
Stage Four
Warning
Restoring the system to an earlier state could bring your USB back to work again in an old system, however, the saved data and installed apps after this point would be erased. To make this essential step 100% secure without doing further damage, continue with the guide below.
1. Download EaseUS free backup software on your computer. 2. Choose a backup option as you want. It's highly suggested to perform a disk/partition backup and system backup. 3. Save your backup image to a safe location where you can reach easily. All in all, keep it safe. 4. Now, go to 'Start/Search' and type control panel. 5. Click 'System and Security' -> 'Backup and Restore' -> 'Restore files from backup' (unless you turned on the system backup option in Windows).
Wait for some time, and this will restore your Windows to a previous version where your USB can be correctly recognized by your PC and laptop!
6.Don't forget to restore data from the backup via EaseUS Todo Backup.
Stage Five
You may find some other answers aside from the mentioned methods here, such as format USB drive using cmd or reinstall the OS. Both manners would also cause a complete data loss. In case that you didn't create backups beforehand, make the last effort to recover the formatted drive and recover data after system restore/reset/reinstall by using EaseUS disk data recovery software.
Notice:
Please stop using your USB flash drive once you lose files on it, in case newly produced data overwrite entries to the lost files.
Step 1. Connect USB to your PC and run USB data recovery software.
Connect the USB flash drive on which your files to your computer and launch EaseUS USB data recovery software - Data Recovery Wizard on your PC.
Select your USB drive under External Devices and click Scan to start finding your lost files.
Step 2. Scan to find all lost files from USB.
EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard will thoroughly scan your USB flash drive and find all your lost data on it.
Step 3. Restore all lost files from USB.
After the scanning process, you can check and preview found USB files in this program.
'Deleted Files' is for you to find deleted files. And 'Lost Partition Files' is quick access to find formatted data.
Double-click the files to preview and choose available ones, click 'Recover' to save them to a secure location on your PC or other external storage devices
You might encounter a situation where you may not be able to open any .exe files or shortcut link files, i.e., EXE or LNK files. You might instead get a “Open with” dialog box, or it may open the file in another program. This happens if the file association of these file extensions may have got corrupted.
EXE files will not open or not working
A corrupted Registry, caused either by a bad software or malware or any other reason, can lead to your Windows being unable to open a particular file type.
When file associations for executable, batch or COM files are changed, it could cause your executables not to start. For example, when you try to click open a .exe file the programs will not start, or the Open with box might appear, or Windows will say that it cannot open this file and ask what you would like to use to open the program, or it may start a different program.
Fix broken EXE file association
1] To rectify the situation, I suggest you download and apply the following registry fixes.
For fixing the .exe file extension download this EXE Fix.
For fixing the .lnk file extension download this LNK Fix.
Right on the File and Click on Merge.
You will get a warning, asking Are you sure you want to continue.
Click Yes and reboot the system.
2] FixExec is designed to resolve these issues by rebuilding the executable file association’s Windows Registry keys that may have become damaged or corrupted. If the tool detects any of these associations are missing, corrupted, changed or hijacked, the settings will be set back to Windows defaults. FixExec tool will fix the .exe, .bat and .com file associations in Windows. It will also terminate any malicious processes found in typical areas. You can download it from bleepingcomputer.com.
3] Microsoft has also released a Fix It to fix EXE file association problems. See if it applies to your version of Windows.
If the icons do not show up correctly, then you might need to rebuild the Icon cache. This post will show you how to reset all File Associations to default in Windows 10.
Generally speaking, in other situations, you can use our freeware File Association Fixer will let you repair and fix file associations and extensions in a single click. The app offers 18 file association fixes & 26 file association fixes for Windows.
TIP: Download this tool to quickly find & fix Windows errors automatically
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