windows: usb.core.NoBackendError: No backend available

[jhgorse]

pyusb appears to have issues with windows.
pyusb/pyusb#120

Installing libusb dll into
C:\Windows\SysWOW64 had no effect.
C:\Windows\System32 dll was found, but libusb is not functional.

(env) PS C:\Work\g203-led> python g203-led.py solid 00FFFF
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "g203-led.py", line 301, in <module>
    main()
  File "g203-led.py", line 67, in main
    set_led_solid(process_color(args[2]))
  File "g203-led.py", line 170, in set_led_solid
    return set_led('01', color + '0000000000')
  File "g203-led.py", line 185, in set_led
    send_command(prefix + mode + data + suffix)
  File "g203-led.py", line 251, in send_command
    attach_mouse()
  File "g203-led.py", line 285, in attach_mouse
    if dev.is_kernel_driver_active(wIndex) is True:
  File "C:\Users\home\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\usb\core.py", line 1062, in is_kernel_driver_active
    return self._ctx.backend.is_kernel_driver_active(
  File "C:\Users\home\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\usb\backend\libusb1.py", line 897, in is_kernel_driver_active
    return bool(_check(self.lib.libusb_kernel_driver_active(dev_handle.handle,
  File "C:\Users\home\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\site-packages\usb\backend\libusb1.py", line 593, in _check
    raise NotImplementedError(_strerror(ret))
NotImplementedError: Operation not supported or unimplemented on this platform

What are the options? I feel like this is a lot of dependency to do a little usb hid wiggling.

Cheers,
Joe