re: Empty Device Manager - FIXED 100%!!
Friday, January 23, 2009 at 6:23 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by chris
(1 messages posted)
Turning on all the services fixes the problem, thanks for the help!
On Friday, January 14, 2005 at 5:04 pm, Flo wrote:
>Hi, I had the same problem for the last few days, but I've finally found the solution
>to the problem. I think this is definitely a glitch in the Win XP OS because we
all
>came across the same problem through different actions. I wasn't installing any
new
>software, hardware, or was even on the internet, for that matter. All I did was
scan
>for adware and viruses and BAM! -- it happened.
>
>The root of the problem is that for some reason Win XP thinks it'd be funny to
>disable all the services that make up the backbone of the OS, which is why Windows
>XP suddenly has no ability to connect to any hardware or that it looks like Windows
>2000 and not the sleek XP. And what's really annoying about this glitch is that
it
>erases all the system restore points you ever saved in the past, so there's no way
>you can ever go back to normal. As some people mentioned in previous posts, yes,
>Plug and Play was disabled, but you can't fix this problem through the BIOS Setup
>Screen because Win XP has its own way of enabling P&P, for some stupid annoying
reason.
>
> So how to fix this damn problem... Go to START --> RUN --> "services.msc" (sans
>quotes). Here is a list of all the services that XP disabled on its own. Go through
>it an enable all of them (some you can skip if you know you won't use it) and don't
>forget to start them as well, or else they won't work. (right click on service-->"start")
>
> I have all of hardware back, including sound, and Win XP looks sleek and nice
>again, but there are still problems here and there. First of all, you'll never get
>those system restore points back because Win XP is a jackass. Second of all, I'm
>having trouble starting my firewall or connecting to the internet (wi-fi, 56k),
but
>I don't know if that's because I'm not at my house where I have LAN, or if I need
>to re-install some applications or services from my recovery disk. And finally,
there
>are still some services that after enabled cannot be started for some odd reason.
>Windows error says that the device or service connected to the said service is not
>enabled, but that doesn't make sense since I've enabled all of them, so there are
>still glitches in the system.
>
>I hope this helped some, and if anyone can figure out the rest of the glitches,
please
>reply! Thanks.
>
>
>
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