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re: Empty Device Manager How I fixed it (New Info)
Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 2:36 pm
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Posted by Sepulchre (1 messages posted)

I was Having the same problem everyone else was, Empty Device manager (among other related problems..Slow Folders, context menus etc.) I tried All of the fixes listed here and none of them worked for me. Then one time when I was in Safe Mode, I decided to check device manager there. My devices showed up, and one other interesting thing. Under the system devices tree there were 2 instances of "PnP BIOS Extension", one of which had (!) indicating a conflict. I disabled and uninstalled the conflicted instance and Viola! Everything was fixed! Hope this helps some of you who have tried all the other fixes with no luck.

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

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re: Empty Device Manager How I fixed it (New Info) (San: Sunday, November 20, 2005 at 3:23 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)