

No buttons to push, no menus to access, no other options to deal with. Focusing on functionality rather than looks, ChipGenius keeps everything to the minimum: its interface consists of only two areas, one showing a complete list of all the USB devices and controllers, and the other displaying details about the selected device.

No installation is required, so ChipGenius can be launched with just a double click. While it can be used in any situation, it particularly comes in handy when a flash device is not visible in File Explorer, but only in the dedicated ‘Devices’ section of Control Panel. We are hosting an unencrypted archive of a slightly older version of ChipGenius that is flagged by fewer antivirus engines and has a better chance of being usable without having to disable your antivirus or add exceptions.ĬhipGenius is a simple application created to assist users in extracting information about their USB devices, finding out details they need to repair broken flash drives. This serves to prevent antivirus engines from flagging it as malicious, but the files in the extracted archive will still be detected and potentially quarantined by your antivirus. The original archive provided by the developer is encrypted and requires a password to extract. These are false positive alerts triggered by heuristic analysis due to the program's behavior (accessing hardware information). Any help would be greatly appreciated.NOTE: Some antivirus solutions may identify this software as malicious. Also noticed that often the software is reporting a disconnect while in fact the connection stays on (for exemple a large download is still running and receiving data, the Windows network indicator is still good, but control software of the dongle reports a disconnect or a a device unplugged error.) I'm not experiencing any other problems with usb devices, so that doesn't seem to be the problem to me. On the few occasions that it stays connected, the speed of the dongle is very poor. But when trying to connect, most of the time it gets disconnect again within a minute stating that there is no device plugged in anymore. On the 64 bit computer the dongle installs the software automatically when plugged in and initializes correctly. I've downloaded the latest drivers for the dongle but no improvement. I have a HUAWEI mobile broadband E173 dongle that is working perfectly on one computer (win 7 pro 32 bit) and is giving me a headache on another computer (win 7 pro 64 bit).
