I have come across this on multiple occasions where the kinect in the Device Manager would be detected and then disappear again after 5 seconds only to be detected again shortly after (continuous loop). It’s always hard to track down this solution which seems to work for me - so I thought maybe the forum is a good place to share it 
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Markus
no longer seems to work, as there is no ‘lower filters’ option
I got the looping issue. then I eventually got a connection, got data in touch. then it went away and i cant seem to get it back. reinstalled kinect, cant get any kinect app to work outside touch now.
I added that registry value - wasn’t there for me either, but since then the looping went away…
yeah ,weird. same thing here. eventually i got it to work, now it works.im not sure why.
Touchdesigner
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