My operating system is Windows XP SP3, i followed the arduino installation instructions but the board instead of being listed among the COM port as a virtual Port, is recognized as "generic USB device" (the name arduino doesn't appear anywhere on the device manager applet).I tried to install manual…

Arduino UNO rev. 3 Installation problem - cannot create virtual COM port

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