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peter915:
I found a fix on the Microsoft site
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2830154#appliesto

I downloaded the Hotfix and installed it - as it was installing it came back and said it was not for this machine???
It says for Windows 8 ... mine is Windows 8 ???
So what gives
I also did the regedit fix
I now can plug the USB into the PC from phone and no error message appears on the PC.
My phone shows a PC icon on the screen - but there is no connection?
any ideas??
Peter

Shane:
You are still going to need the right drivers for the phone no matter what. And so far it looks like they dont have Windows 8 drivers for that phone.

Shane

peter915:
As an update - I ended up going around this problem - we use a USB modem for our main Wifi connection through a Dray tek router.
Someone suggested I simply take the Sim card out of my phone and put it in our USB modem.
So easy - why didn't I think of it before.
The modem now connects to the phone provider and accesses the 3 gig of data.

Now I have another issue, regards Port Forwarding but I must put that question over on the other forum.

Peter

Shane:
Good trick :-)

Shane

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