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I'm not sure what's going on here, but I just installed web version 12.0 and had the same problem. The solution was to install version 10.1 of the stand along programmer. Go into devices manager and "update" the driver (right click on usb blaster) to the older version that is installed in the drivers folder of the 10.1 stand along programmer. maybe 11.0 would work as well. This is kind of lame (same type of system Win 64 sp 1 version 7) . I had to do this for my starter kit, not a terasic usb blaster as someone else mentioned. After doing all of that then I could get the hardware drop down in the programming software finally. Seems like a big bug, unless my system is just weird, although it sounds like at least a few people have this same problem.