Cannot connect USB flash drive to Win7_32bit Guest

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Nickname_Jim
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Cannot connect USB flash drive to Win7_32bit Guest

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Windows 7 64-bit HOST. Windows 7 32-bit GUEST.
I have found this issue posted on the forum from previous years. I have tried suggestions from those posts:

Uninstall, delete Oracle directory, & re-install
Install extension pack with matching version

Eject flash drive from host OS before attaching to guest
Don't eject flash drive from host OS before attaching to guest

Create USB filter removing all fields except Name, Vendor ID, & Product ID
-- Insert flash drive before launching VM
-- Insert flash drive after launching VM

Remove filter & attach manually from Device list
-- Insert flash drive before launching VM
-- Insert flash drive after launching VM

All steps above done with GUEST USB settings set to 2.0 and 3.0.

Plug the flash drive into a USB 2.0 port.
Plug the flash drive into a USB 3.0 port (both motherboard & plug-in card)

Tried a flash drive from a different manufacturer (SanDisk & no-name-white-box-brand)

Also tried... From another user's post at:
superuser.../questions/1136607/virtualbox-usb-capture-issue-windows-7-host-guest
Edit your registry
Open the Windows registry, by clicking on Start > Run and typing regedit
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class{36FC9E60-C465-11CF-8056-444553540000}
In the right hand panel, if the UpperFilters entry exists, delete it

Install the VirtualBox USB driver manually
Go to folder C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\drivers\USB\filter
Right-click on VboxUSBMon.inf
Click Install

Reboot the host computer
Unplug your USB device (I did this before the reboot)
Open VirtualBox and Close it (to remove the USB device from the VM's captured list)
Plug your USB device
Open VirtualBox and Run Virtual Machine.
Right click on the VM status bar USB icon and select the USB device you want to attach to the VM (or select it from the Devices > USB list)


I still cannot get the flash drive to connect to the GUEST OS.

Attached are the output files from:
VBoxManage list usbhost
VBoxManage showvminfo "Your_Virtual_Machine_Name"

Any help at this point would be greatly appreciated. I have sunk a lot of time into this and rebooted my HOST PC & GUEST OS about 50 times trying a whole bunch of different suggestions.

Regards,
Jim
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