SD Card Reader Down
So my SD card reader on my Lenovo v100 has taken its last breath and said farewell to this cruel world. But wait! I still need to download a whole bunch of photos!
While checking the SD Memory Card Properties under Device Manager in Control Panel, here’s the crap message I get:
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because a previous instance of the device driver is still in memory. (Code 38)
I tried:
- to uninstall and then insert the SD card again to spark a reinstall.
- update driver but was told it is already the latest.
- checking for solutions made me laugh because it offered none.
So it is back to Google to offer me a solution (I Googled the whole error message).
Now the solution appears to be uninstalling AVG. And true enough, it works.
To replace AVG, I have installed Avast and Avira.
I’ve always been a fan of overkill. 
Christina Sng worked as a web developer, information architect, account executive, producer, technical writer, and usability consultant in the 10 years (that's 30 years in Internet time!) she brought bread home. She has since retired to raise her children but still spends most of her waking hours on the net, no thanks to Apple. Here are some of her adventures.
