Unable to Install Arduino Uno Acer Aspire One Windows 7

I'm working with an Acer Aspire One ZG8 running Windows 7 Home Edition Premium and trying to get it to connect to an Arduino Uno. The board works great on my other machines running XP - but when I try to install the drivers on this Windows 7 netbook - it simply says "Windows could find driver software for your device" and it doesn't think about it too long.
Any help in this regard would be much appreciated - I was really looking forward to using this netbook as a cool Arduino interface.

Take a look at this http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Windows#toc4

Windows does not try to load the driver - it only says "Windows could not find driver software for your device"

It gives that message because it tried to load a driver and could not find one. Follow those steps and your Uno will work.

Although I can see the Arduino Uno inf file in , C:~\Arduino\arduino-1.0.1\Arduino UNO.inf

The computer doesn't go through a driver installation, despite the fact I pointed it to the appropriate folder

You followed the steps exactly as stated on the Arduino site?
Are you logged in as an administrator?

If so, try booting into safe mode and doing the driver install from there.

If that fails, open up the start menu and type cmd, then right click and
select run as administrator or press Ctrl+Shift+Enter at once, and then
type sfc /scannow to check for corrupt system files.

what directory is the scannow command to be run in?

The admin command prompt will probably open to C:\Windows\System32 - just run it right there.

Thanks, I installed the driver in safe mode and it worked perfectly. Case closed!!

Glad that you got it installed.