I also can’t seem to get the pocket programmer to be recognized by windows.
when i plug it in i get a “device not recognized” so i manually point to the drivers using the device manager. The result is “No drivers were found at this location”.
I haven’t tried AVR Studio as I just started, but the pocket AVR programmer working using avrdude under Vista 32 bit. I’m connecting my programmer using a non-powered Radio Shack USB hub. I’m not sure if I’m allowed to post model numbers of non-sparkfun parts but you can PM me if you want the specific hub I used.](http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=16048)
I just pluged it in, upon being pormted from usb “new device detected” entered path to the driver, that I had unzipped after downloading from Sparkfun, and it worked.