re: Corrupt Registry Keys in the Registry
Saturday, October 29, 2005 at 11:28 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Andrew Humphriss
(5 messages posted)
Fantastic! Thanks Jodi!
Just delete the strange registry keys in enum - pci and usb - they get longfer and
longer and look completely different to the other keys.
Thanks mate - you're a genius.
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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