re: Corrupted Enum keys make a come back
Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mark Johnson
(1 messages posted)
This one was my problem. I searched the registry "$%&" and found hundreds of them
under one of the enum keys. I deleted the specific key that contained them under
ENUM in all three of the CurrentControlSet's, rebooted, and I'm back up and running.
Device Manager is back and my networking is working again.
On Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 1:54 pm, Lyle Campbell wrote:
>I too tried the PnP, aproprosfix, registry permissions fixes, scanned the system
>for malware, ran a registry fix all to no avail. Somewhere in the thread is an
entry
>from someone who noticed corrupt key names in the registry starting with "$%&'()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.
>
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