STILL No One Has the Real Answer!!
Friday, January 21, 2005 at 12:25 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Enigma
(2 messages posted)
Welp, everyone on here has just mentioned and reposted over and over all the pat
answers from Microsoft about the services and the permissions... well, here's
my problem. MUCH worse than what you guys are getting I guess.
I've got the same blank/empty Device Manager only this happens right after (and
due to) installing XP Service Pack 2. I get this on multiple laptops, but ONLY
the laptops (IBM StinkPads, widely varying models).
All my services and registry permissions look fine. But I still have blank Device
Manager. However, if I look at the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum
I have at least one garbage entry as my first entry and many times I even have
multiple garbage entries or even all of them. ex. a blank key under ENUM with
the name $%&'()*+, and no values.
Many times the key name gets longer and longer consecutively. I cannot delete
these keys because they are of course in use by the system. The same will be
repeated in ControlSet001 and 002, so I can't even repair using those.
So there...whatcha think of THAT!
- Written in response to:
- Empty Device Manager (Tye: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 8:10 am)
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