Like many of you, I searched and searched for a legitimate way to solve
the "HID data has stopped working" error. I am pleased to report that
my system is running fine now and no longer gets this annoying message.


I apoligized if a similar suggestion has been posted previously, but
here goes.

Soon after I bought my new laptop - HP dv5, I decided to see if my
iPhone (another toy) would sync up via blue tooth. I was able to pair
the devices but no luck with the sync. I abandoned my effort, but did
not disable the blue tooth connection between the iPhone and the laptop.
I also never made the connection between when the problem started and
the day I paired the devices. WahLah.

I went into the *control panel* under *Hardware and Sound, then to Blue
Tooth. *I removed the iPhone pairing, and there ya go. No more issues,
and I did not have to disable any other features on my laptop.

Although the hint was a bit vague, I found some good stuff on HP.com
under stupport on this topic. If you do not have a similar issue as
me, or choose not to disable a blue tooth device (because you need it),
they likely have a fix in the list of suggestions. Link is listed
below.

'HP Notebook PCs*-* Error: HIDData.exe has stopped working*'
(http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...reg_R1002_USEN)

There is also a new patch at Microsoft that my be of interest

'_http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941600/_'
(http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/l...2F&lc=en&cc=us)