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re: Empty Device Manager
Friday, October 21, 2005 at 11:36 pm
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Posted by Jaz (2 messages posted)

I'm putting this in here even though it's an old thread. I just ran into this, and found no solution anywhere. I tried all the suggestions and none worked. This is what worked for me. I ran regedt32.exe. Under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\ROOT_HUB I had a large number of garbled entries. I deleted them all manually. Yeah, it was crazy punching the "delete" then "enter" keys alternately and rapidly, because there are a lot of entries to delete. You can tell the garbled ones because the normal entries have a certain pattern, such as Vid_0ea0&Pid_2168 and so on. That's not garbled, it's just standard MicrosoftRegSpeak. The bad ones just have a bunch of % and $ and stuff, and seem repeated over and over, getting longer all the time. I deleted the ones under CurrentControlSet001 and 002 as well. _Then_ I could see my devices again!

Written in response to:: Empty Device Manager (Tye: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 8:10 am)

Responses to this message:
re: Empty Device Manager (Jaz: Friday, October 21, 2005 at 11:49 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (George Lawniczak: Sunday, December 4, 2005 at 1:30 pm)

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Empty Device Manager (Tye: Wed, Apr 30, 2003, 8:10 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Steve: Wed, Apr 30, 2003, 8:16 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Tye: Mon, May 5, 2003, 6:19 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (gman: Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 7:56 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Carlos: Fri, Sep 5, 2003, 6:28 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Dave D: Thu, Sep 11, 2003, 4:43 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Dave D: Sat, Sep 13, 2003, 9:19 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (david: Mon, May 1, 2006, 4:38 am)

Empty Device Manager - Fixed (Wayne Smith: Fri, Nov 19, 2004, 7:55 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager - Fixed (Don: Sat, Jan 1, 2005, 8:57 am)

re: Empty Device Manager - Fixed (KimberTech: Thu, Jun 16, 2005, 8:07 am)

re: Empty Device Manager - Fixed (Chris Koloszar: Sun, Jul 31, 2005, 7:42 am)

re: Empty Device Manager - Fixed (Kathy Doolittle: Sat, Aug 13, 2005, 3:52 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager - Fixed (Lisa Reid: Thu, Sep 1, 2005, 6:28 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager - Fixed (Darren Madden: Wed, Aug 16, 2006, 4:31 am)

re: Empty Device Manager - Fixed (Tony Cox: Sat, Feb 3, 2007, 12:57 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager - Fixed (Gary Stevens: Thu, Feb 15, 2007, 11:11 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (charlie romarez: Sun, Aug 19, 2007, 12:23 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (gman: Mon, Oct 27, 2003, 5:14 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Sayantan Datta: Mon, Oct 13, 2003, 4:58 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Sajith: Sun, Nov 2, 2003, 10:50 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Sayantan Datta: Mon, Nov 17, 2003, 11:46 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (ganesh: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 8:26 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Sayantan Datta: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 2:14 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (JG: Sun, May 2, 2004, 12:53 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (kenneth: Fri, Sep 3, 2004, 2:43 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Patrick Mckay: Mon, Oct 10, 2005, 10:29 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Cynthia: Thu, Dec 14, 2006, 9:53 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (marc: Wed, Jan 24, 2007, 9:04 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (SavedByRegedt32: Thu, Jan 25, 2007, 2:37 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Avinash Tauro: Fri, May 28, 2004, 6:48 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (ashfaq: Sat, Sep 11, 2004, 9:36 pm)

Permanent Solution!!!! Try it out (Girsh: Thu, Nov 24, 2005, 3:17 pm)

re: Permanent Solution!!!! Try it out (Michael: Thu, Nov 24, 2005, 5:01 pm)

re: Permanent Solution!!!! Try it out (Ron: Thu, Nov 24, 2005, 10:27 pm)

re: Permanent Solution!!!! Try it out (David: Fri, Nov 25, 2005, 4:46 pm)

re: Permanent Solution!!!! Try it out --- WORKS!!!! (JW: Tue, Dec 13, 2005, 5:06 pm)

re: Permanent Solution!!!! Try it out --- WORKS!!!! (D.E.Bates: Tue, Dec 13, 2005, 11:26 pm)

re: Permanent Solution!!!! Try it out (Tony: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 12:28 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Gary Lee: Fri, Mar 30, 2007, 11:33 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Jose Almeida: Fri, Apr 20, 2007, 6:10 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Nita in Philly: Sat, Aug 25, 2007, 7:20 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (pradeep kumar moses: Wed, Sep 17, 2003, 10:46 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Khong How Yu: Mon, Jun 21, 2004, 6:59 am)

re: Empty Device Manager - it worked!!! (James Norio: Mon, Jul 5, 2004, 6:10 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager - it worked!!! (BIK: Wed, Sep 15, 2004, 6:12 am)

re: Empty Device Manager - it worked!!! (Roberto Grande: Fri, Apr 1, 2005, 10:17 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager - it worked!!! (pete: Fri, Jan 11, 2008, 6:52 pm)

re: Solved The Device Manager Crap In A Sec (David: Wed, Nov 30, 2005, 4:59 pm)

re: Solved The Device Manager Crap In A Sec (meakin: Wed, Nov 30, 2005, 9:19 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Tom: Wed, Sep 1, 2004, 11:50 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (ananth: Mon, Nov 21, 2005, 6:11 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Andrew: Fri, Nov 25, 2005, 6:39 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (kenny: Mon, Dec 19, 2005, 7:08 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Nandgopal: Sun, Sep 21, 2003, 7:43 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (MicroMan: Sat, Apr 3, 2004, 5:05 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Sean: Mon, May 24, 2004, 3:39 pm)

Empty Device manager, nothing so far has worked (vicejesus: Thu, Jun 3, 2004, 4:22 am)

re: Empty Device manager, nothing so far has worked (Bulldog: Sun, Jun 13, 2004, 8:45 am)

re: Empty Device manager, nothing so far has worked (vicejesus: Mon, Jun 14, 2004, 11:35 am)

re: Empty Device manager, nothing so far has worked (auja123: Sun, Jul 4, 2004, 11:17 am)

HELP nothing worked!!! (Inge Mueller: Thu, Aug 5, 2004, 8:57 am)

re: HELP nothing worked!!! (Matt: Tue, Sep 14, 2004, 12:27 pm)

re: HELP nothing worked!!! (jusid: Wed, Oct 20, 2004, 11:51 am)

re: HELP nothing worked!!! (Lee Fastenau: Thu, Nov 18, 2004, 8:34 pm)

re: HELP nothing worked!!! (AHarter: Wed, Dec 22, 2004, 8:41 am)

re: Empty Device manager, nothing so far has worked (anthony: Fri, Jun 17, 2005, 10:30 pm)

re: Empty Device manager, nothing so far has worked (Brina: Thu, Oct 14, 2004, 11:58 am)

re: Empty Device manager, nothing so far has worked (Jay: Wed, Nov 23, 2005, 12:55 pm)

re: Empty Device manager, nothing so far has worked (Cam: Thu, Oct 14, 2004, 12:27 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Dan: Mon, Oct 4, 2004, 11:00 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Sid: Mon, Nov 8, 2004, 8:42 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Ait'al: Thu, Nov 10, 2005, 8:50 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Ait'al: Thu, Nov 10, 2005, 9:02 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Coyt Phillips: Fri, Nov 18, 2005, 9:34 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (vardhan: Mon, Oct 15, 2007, 1:44 pm)

Empty Device Manager (chawal: Thu, Nov 15, 2007, 2:24 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (dave: Thu, Jan 27, 2005, 8:10 am)

Many many thanks Dan! (re: Empty Device Manager) (Nicolas: Thu, May 5, 2005, 9:51 am)

re: Empty Device Manager (Arvind: Wed, Jun 22, 2005, 7:44 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager fix gives error box. (Evil Man: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 2:31 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager fix gives error box. (Lou Kurrelmeyer: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 4:06 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Pepin Marshall: Sun, Apr 2, 2006, 12:11 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (JB: Sat, Feb 17, 2007, 4:53 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (sffuji: Sun, May 25, 2008, 7:01 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Peter: Thu, Jul 26, 2007, 4:10 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager - Not Fixed (gahelton: Tue, Jan 1, 2008, 10:25 am)

re: Empty Device Manager - Fixed Now ! (gahelton: Wed, Jan 2, 2008, 6:29 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Grigory Morozov: Sun, Nov 7, 2004, 6:39 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager XP Home - No Com ports (Fritz Newton: Thu, Dec 9, 2004, 4:27 pm)

Device manager empty, no programs work at all...ahhhhhhh (Jim: Mon, Dec 13, 2004, 6:07 pm)

re: Device manager empty, fixed! (Ron Malloy: Wed, Jan 5, 2005, 7:36 am)

re: Device manager empty, fixed! (Catherine: Thu, Jan 13, 2005, 4:16 am)

re: Device manager empty, fixed! (paul Davidson: Sat, Feb 12, 2005, 4:00 pm)

re: Device manager empty, fixed! (Ron: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 9:11 pm)

Solution seems to be AproposFix.exe... (jreese: Tue, Nov 22, 2005, 9:35 pm)

Re: AproposFix.exe... Thank You (astronke: Wed, Nov 23, 2005, 3:38 pm)

re: Re: AproposFix.exe... Thank You (Marty: Fri, Nov 25, 2005, 5:20 pm)

re: Solution seems to be AproposFix.exe... (robert240: Wed, Nov 23, 2005, 7:20 pm)

re: Solution seems to be AproposFix.exe... (Tim: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 5:23 am)

re: Solution seems to be AproposFix.exe... (charliezim: Sun, Nov 27, 2005, 9:16 pm)

re: Solution seems to be AproposFix.exe... (Diane: Wed, Nov 23, 2005, 9:39 pm)

re: Solution seems to be AproposFix.exe... (David Sharp: Thu, Nov 24, 2005, 2:05 pm)

re: Solution seems to be AproposFix.exe... (Andrew: Fri, Nov 25, 2005, 9:09 pm)

re: Solution seems to be AproposFix.exe... (Sven2000XP: Mon, Dec 12, 2005, 10:12 am)

re: Device manager empty SOLUTION! (Catherine: Thu, Jan 13, 2005, 4:42 am)

re: Empty Device Manager XP Home - No Com ports (Howard A: Thu, Jun 30, 2005, 1:37 am)

re: Empty Device Manager - FIXED 100%!! (Flo: Fri, Jan 14, 2005, 5:04 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager - FIXED 100%!! (Monie: Thu, Nov 24, 2005, 8:40 am)

re: Empty Device Manager - FIXED 100%!! (chris: Thu, Nov 24, 2005, 9:03 am)

STILL No One Has the Real Answer!! (Enigma: Fri, Jan 21, 2005, 12:25 pm)

re: STILL No One Has the Real Answer!! (JoeMeister: Wed, Feb 2, 2005, 10:33 am)

Maybe there is no ONE answer (Larrybum: Thu, Feb 3, 2005, 8:34 pm)

device manager problem (Karthik: Sat, Nov 26, 2005, 8:58 am)

re: STILL No One Has the Real Answer!! (clif: Fri, Feb 18, 2005, 5:36 am)

re: STILL No One Has the Real Answer!! (Kent Givitout: Sat, Apr 16, 2005, 8:27 pm)

re: STILL No One Has the Real Answer!! (Ryan: Tue, May 17, 2005, 7:54 am)

re: STILL No One Has the Real Answer!! (Steven: Sun, Nov 20, 2005, 10:06 am)

re: STILL No One Has the Real Answer!! (Aistis: Sun, Nov 20, 2005, 11:21 am)

re: STILL No One Has the Real Answer!! Empty Device Manager (king_georgebush: Sun, Nov 20, 2005, 2:33 pm)

The Ultimate Answer: (Miles Prower: Thu, Dec 1, 2005, 1:17 pm)

re: Empty Device Manager (Tyson: Tue, Mar 29, 2005, 10:30 pm)

ENUM Permission fix does NOT work! (Joe Sullivan: Sat, Jul 16, 2005, 3:09 pm)

re: ENUM Permission fix does NOT work! (mark: Wed, Oct 19, 2005, 8:42 pm)

re: ENUM Permission fix does NOT work! (Rrose: Thu, Oct 20, 2005, 5:48 am)

re: ENUM Permission fix does NOT work! (William Magness: Fri, Oct 21, 2005, 7:02 am)