re: Corrupt Registry Keys in the Registry
Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at 8:54 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mark
(4 messages posted)
this is very odd,windows security update KB905749 is corrupting my enum registry,i
will look into it tomorrow to see if i can figure it out, but as of now if install
above update (KB905749) no device manager,but if i uninstall it (reboot) there is
my device manager .
yours confussed.
mark
On Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 10:09 am, Jodi wrote:
>I got this problem after installing a new DVD drive.
>
>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
>
>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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