re: Corrupted Enum keys make a come back
Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Lyle Campbell
(1 messages posted)
I too tried the PnP, aproprosfix, registry permissions fixes, scanned the system
for malware, ran a registry fix all to no avail. Somewhere in the thread is an entry
from someone who noticed corrupt key names in the registry starting with "$%&'()1234".
I noticed one of these under HKLM, System, (all ControlSets), Enum, USB.
Then I searched for that string and found hundreds of them, each name incremented
by one character of the string until the maximum filename size was reached. They
were all owned by the System so after logging in as administrator I had to first
change the ownership to the administrator and then was allowed to add the administrator
with full control permissions. Rather than do this on each of the hundreds of files
I did it at the USB level and propogated the change downward by checking the box
next to "change owner on subcontainers..." and "replace ... on child objects...".
Then you can either delete the keys individually or the folders name "VID....".
After I found and deleted these, then rebooted the system and watched it rediscover
it's devices the device manager was again filled, the sound worked, the network properties
were available, etc. Wahoo!
Bottom line is there are as many ways to break something in Windoze as there are
to get there but this happened to work for me. Hope it helps you too.
On Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 10:48 pm, swapnaja wrote:
>i have this problem
>tryed following..........
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>pnp automatic,
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>ENUM permissions,
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>sfc /scannow,
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>aproposfix,
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>hotfix from microsoft,
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>device manager new registry,
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>system restore in normal mode,
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>still device manager is blank
>please suggest another options
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