re: Empty Device Manager - It also worked for me
Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 5:34 pm
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Posted by Carol
(1 messages posted)
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You
You're a saviour I had tried endless methods from other resources but with no success.
But on finding this solution it has provided me the result. I now have "Device Manager"
back. Hooray!!
You're a diamond. Thanks Again Carol
On Monday, July 5, 2004 at 6:10 pm, James Norio wrote:
>Hi,
>Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I spent an entire day with Dell computer support
>trying to retrieve the device manager list on my girlfriend's laptop with Windoze
>2000. It appears to have disappeared after Dell support had me install WinRoute
>to access a wireless TrueMobile 2300. All that was left in the device manager list
>was an icon of a computer with the computer's name. I was told that I would have
>to re-install Win2K, and anyway why wasn't I using XP? I am getting disappointed
>with their level of support; it used to be better in the old days (wasn't everything?).
> Other symptoms included: no more plug n play (for USB drives, etc.), no sound,
slow
>bootup, etc.).
>
>I tried the fix spelled out by Sayantan but it didn't work; however, I noticed that
>when I turned off plug n play, the icon with my computer name also disappeared,
which
>led me to try the solution suggested by Pradeep.
>
>After applying Pradeep's fix, everything seems fine. Just for other dummies like
>me who weren't sure where to start, here are the steps I went through:
>
>Start-Run-regedt32.exe (note the missing "i", it took me awhile to get past that);
>Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE on Local Machine;
>Burrow into the registry - SYSTEM/CurrenControlSet/Enum;
>Highlight "Enum";
>Click on Security-Permissions on Tool Bar;
>[Note: on my system, only "Everyone" was in the list, with no permissions]
>Click on "Add", Choose SYSTEM from list, click on "Add", Click on "OK";
>Toggle on Allow Read & Full Control;
>[I also added Administrator to the list but don't know if this matters or not or
>if it may be a problem later...]
>Click on "OK";
>Reboot!
>
>Again, many thanks for the effective advice!
>Cheers,
>Jim
>
>
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