re: Corrupt Registry Keys in the Registry
Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 1:52 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Patrick Mckay
(5 messages posted)
Similar probvlem after no particular event. XP SP 2 had been installed already,
everthing was working one minute, next minute Device Manager empty.
Found a number of solutions... one was the PNP thing, the other had to do with permissions
and opened them up and set them up to inherit all the way down the line. Still no
success.
How can a guy discover where and which registry keys are corrupt. That may be my
answer but I have no idea where to start.
Thanks.
On Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 10:09 am, Jodi wrote:
>I got this problem after installing a new DVD drive.
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>The PNP service was running fine, and the enum permissions were all setup correctly.
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>The cause of my problem was that I had invalid registry keys in the PCI and PCI->USB
>branches of the enum registry keys!
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>The corrupt registry keys were along the lines of "$%^&*()01234" or longer.
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>My fix was the following
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>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
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