re: Empty Device Manager
Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 5:13 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by johnlee
(1 messages posted)
I tried literally everything listed above except what John suggested, but to no avail.
The spyware remover program pointed to by John finally did the trick and now everything
seems to be back to normal.
Thanks a lot! : )
On Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 4:59 pm, John wrote:
>I just had this problem with my XP Device Manager being blank. Removing KB05749
>didn't do the trick for me. The culprit in my case was a nasty adware that was
installed
>on my system. It's called apropos. Not sure how I got it. Probably some shareware
>I installed had this adware included in the installation. Sneaky! It was constantly
>popping up ads when I'd surf the net with IE. It drove me nuts! Adware and Seek
>& Destroy couldn't see it. I finally found it was on my system using a trial version
>of Spy Sweeper. I'd have Spy Sweeper remove it, but the darn thing would be back
>again after the next reboot! I finally found a utility that removes apropos once
>and for all at DSLReports.com, in this thread...
>
>http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14678998
>
>see the message by CalamityJane. It has the link to download the AproposFix and
>installation instructions. The fix must be run in XP Safe Mode as apropos has registry
>settings that allows itself to be reinstalled upon reboot. I think it evens runs
>as a service. The fix worked great. Apropos is gone finally. And guess what?
>My device manager is now showing everything again.
>Before you run this apropos fix, I suggest downloading the trial version of Spy
Sweeper
>from www.webroot.com Do the system scan and it'll tell you if you have apropos
>on your system. If you do, download and run that Aproposfix.
>
>Hope this helps...
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