re: Empty Device Manager
Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 10:29 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by F15hii
(9 messages posted)
I FINALLY SOLVED IT!!!!! First of all thank you jcw for sticking with me, and your
suggestions, I was about to give up. I also found out that if I did properties on
"my network" i couldnt see my lan connection even though my network is working fine.
Strangely enough it was the registry that was causing it. After running regedt32
I manually scanned for suspicious looking entries and look at the keys and values.
It took a long time. I found 2 entries that were corrupted. I couldnt open them to
read them, I was getting an error message "can open to read" or something like that,
so I cant delete them also. I remembered awhile back that I had downloaded a "registry
fix" when unzipped the files were regfix1 and regfix2. I ran those and looked at
the corrupted keys again. The keys were now fixed. I was able to read both of them.
I rebooted and checked the device manager which now is populated with all the devices.
I turned on the WIA service which I had disabled earlier and installed the 905749
patch , rebooted, and all is well again.
the 2 registry entries that were the culprits are
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\enum\root\LEGACY_NWLRVDM
and
HKLM\Software\CpXuFABmcW95
Now I have to look for some hair formula to get my hair back afyer weeks of pulling
them out trying to fix this problem :)
Thanks to all in this forum, I have learned a lot.
On Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 9:08 am, jcw wrote:
>I continue to believe that you have Apropos or some variant thereof which is causing
>your problem, largely because the scans you have run aren't detecting it, and the
>fact that your device manager correctly displays devices in safe mode but not in
>normal mode. By this time, you most likely have read that Apropos.C uses rootkit
>techniques, discussed at:
>http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/rootkitrevealer.html
>I suggest we see if some others may not have some idea how to detect and remove
>this thing.
>
Why not try posting your problem at one of the forums noted below. In doing
>so, be sure to explain all things you have tried, the removal tools and fixes you
>have downloaded and run, etc., and tell them that your device manager shows devices
>in safe mode but not in normal mode.
>
The other forums that may be helpful are:
> --> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14678998
>--> http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?p=2814
>
You probably should start a new thread in posting there. Follow their instructions
>and rules in posting messages.
>I for one would be interested in hearing how you make out, and what ultimately
>(hopefully something) works for you. It's discouraging to hear that the AproposFix
>from the "swandog46" URL didn't work in your case, if in fact your problem is Apropos
>related.
>
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- re: Empty Device Manager (jcw: Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 9:08 am)
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