Hi, I had this same issue, really kicked my arse. It's pretty funny a 2 year old thread and we are both resurrecting it todday!
In any case, I downloaded usbdeview.zip (Free) and ran it to delete most/all of my USB registries... fixed the issue for about 1 minute. It's an excellent program and may help you, but in the end I found my issue was a touch different. I had MISPROGRAMMED my TWCS and assigned an AXIS to it that was also assigned to my T16000M in the TARGET software while creating a profile/file for DCS F18.... somehow, this was causing havoc with TARGET and when I ran this file to the joysticks... it created the combined unit but only the TWCS was working.
After I finally removed all USB registries AND fixed that axis programming error in TARGET... everything is now working! Just the USB thing only fixed it for about 10 seconds or so (If I left the T16000M alone for 10 seconds... it goes dead, but if I move it every 9 seconds it stayed alive... not a full fix).
Just thought I'd provide info as I've been reading for hours to fix this issue... took me over 6 hours. Hope I'm done! Good luck.
John
