re: Empty Device Manager
Sunday, December 4, 2005 at 1:30 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by George Lawniczak
(1 messages posted)
I went into USB as Jaz indicated and deleted all folders/files that started with
the strange characters...including all Vid folders that contained the junk...recovered
everything...thanks to all..
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On Friday, October 21, 2005 at 11:36 pm, Jaz wrote:
>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!
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