re: Empty Device Manager - FIXED 100%!!
Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 8:40 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Monie
(1 messages posted)
Yea i'm having the same trouble, its especially affected the wireless network etc.
Is it likely to get addressed with any future windows update, or else if i used
an XP-CD, how would i know what to re-install or fix, its all a bit beyond me at
tbhis point, i've only managed the fix by your walk-through guide (ta very much btw:)
On Friday, January 14, 2005 at 5:04 pm, Flo wrote:
>Hi, I had the same problem for the last few days, but I've finally found the solution
>to the problem. I think this is definitely a glitch in the Win XP OS because we
all
>came across the same problem through different actions. I wasn't installing any
new
>software, hardware, or was even on the internet, for that matter. All I did was
scan
>for adware and viruses and BAM! -- it happened.
>
>The root of the problem is that for some reason Win XP thinks it'd be funny to
>disable all the services that make up the backbone of the OS, which is why Windows
>XP suddenly has no ability to connect to any hardware or that it looks like Windows
>2000 and not the sleek XP. And what's really annoying about this glitch is that
it
>erases all the system restore points you ever saved in the past, so there's no way
>you can ever go back to normal. As some people mentioned in previous posts, yes,
>Plug and Play was disabled, but you can't fix this problem through the BIOS Setup
>Screen because Win XP has its own way of enabling P&P, for some stupid annoying
reason.
>
> So how to fix this damn problem... Go to START --> RUN --> "services.msc" (sans
>quotes). Here is a list of all the services that XP disabled on its own. Go through
>it an enable all of them (some you can skip if you know you won't use it) and don't
>forget to start them as well, or else they won't work. (right click on service-->"start")
>
> I have all of hardware back, including sound, and Win XP looks sleek and nice
>again, but there are still problems here and there. First of all, you'll never get
>those system restore points back because Win XP is a jackass. Second of all, I'm
>having trouble starting my firewall or connecting to the internet (wi-fi, 56k),
but
>I don't know if that's because I'm not at my house where I have LAN, or if I need
>to re-install some applications or services from my recovery disk. And finally,
there
>are still some services that after enabled cannot be started for some odd reason.
>Windows error says that the device or service connected to the said service is not
>enabled, but that doesn't make sense since I've enabled all of them, so there are
>still glitches in the system.
>
>I hope this helped some, and if anyone can figure out the rest of the glitches,
please
>reply! Thanks.
>
>
>
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