After customer care of safcom wasted my 3 hours trying to make it work in my Vista (including upgrading the 3G card software) ;

I tried something on my own; and it worked for me. (However, this worked for Vista; I dont know about windows 7 - give it a try):

Safaricom 3G card:

-the 3G card will be seen as merely a flash disk <for some Vistas> ; So try the following:

1) Explore the data card under "My computer"  and look for the following .exe or files to modify:

set "DataCard_Setup" (32/64 bit) compatibility mode to "run as administrator"


2) set "setup" inside folder "safaricom broad band" to compatibility "run as administrator"

3) set "reset" to compatibility "run as administrator"

(You may also set "autorun" to run as administrator, if your comp sees it as a program)


Then insert device and double-click "autorun" and wait. Observe the task bar (hapo chini karibu na speaker icon) as 3G modem drivers are finally loaded and the device is now seen as a Modem.


NB: You may be forced to unistall the program and reinstall if Autorun does not pick up the process as outlined above.
Then after reinstall; double click the "autorun" once the huawei modem is seen as a flash disk.
The safcom program may be kept on during this process.

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Good Luck !!!