re: Empty Device Manager - it worked!!!
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 at 6:12 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by BIK
(1 messages posted)
I'm also very thankful it worked for our INSPIRON 8000 that developed the same empty
device manager.
So thank you all for posting this very helpful information.
On Monday, July 5, 2004 at 6:10 pm, James Norio wrote:
>Hi,
>Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I spent an entire day with Dell computer support
>trying to retrieve the device manager list on my girlfriend's laptop with Windoze
>2000. It appears to have disappeared after Dell support had me install WinRoute
>to access a wireless TrueMobile 2300. All that was left in the device manager list
>was an icon of a computer with the computer's name. I was told that I would have
>to re-install Win2K, and anyway why wasn't I using XP? I am getting disappointed
>with their level of support; it used to be better in the old days (wasn't everything?).
> Other symptoms included: no more plug n play (for USB drives, etc.), no sound,
slow
>bootup, etc.).
>
>I tried the fix spelled out by Sayantan but it didn't work; however, I noticed that
>when I turned off plug n play, the icon with my computer name also disappeared,
which
>led me to try the solution suggested by Pradeep.
>
>After applying Pradeep's fix, everything seems fine. Just for other dummies like
>me who weren't sure where to start, here are the steps I went through:
>
>Start-Run-regedt32.exe (note the missing "i", it took me awhile to get past that);
>Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Local Machine;
>Burrow into the registry - SYSTEM/CurrenControlSet/Enum;
>Highlight "Enum";
>Click on Security-Permissions on Tool Bar;
>[Note: on my system, only "Everyone" was in the list, with no permissions]
>Click on "Add", Choose SYSTEM from list, click on "Add", Click on "OK";
>Toggle on Allow Read & Full Control;
>[I also added Administrator to the list but don't know if this matters or not or
>if it may be a problem later...]
>Click on "OK";
>Reboot!
>
>Again, many thanks for the effective advice!
>Cheers,
>Jim
>
>
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