Corrupt Registry Keys in the Registry
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 10:09 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jodi
(1 messages posted)
I got this problem after installing a new DVD drive.
The PNP service was running fine, and the enum permissions were all setup correctly.
The cause of my problem was that I had invalid registry keys in the PCI and PCI->USB
branches of the enum registry keys!
The corrupt registry keys were along the lines of "$%^&*()01234" or longer.
My fix was the following
1) Go to the permissions of the corrupt registry key
2) add new permission for the administrator
3) give the administrator "full control"
4) once applied you can now delete the offending key
5) so, delete the corrupt key.
Once I had deleted ALL the corrupt keys in the enum/PCI branch of the registry my
device manager start to work again.
Therefore I am posting my findings here so that someone else can benfit from my findings.
-Jodi
On Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 8:10 am, Tye wrote:
>PLZ PLZ RESCUE ME.
>My computer has a Windows XP OS and the Device Manager is empty.
>The modem is there on com port 3 but the only com port available is com port1.
>So I am unable to load the modem driver and re-install the modem so I can get connection
>to the internet.
>
>
>
- Written in response to:
- Empty Device Manager (Tye: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 8:10 am)
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