re: Empty Device Manager
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by garfield_tsm
(3 messages posted)
I think I may have the same problem you did. I discovered a corrupt reg key, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\SW\{ddf4358e-bb"c-11d0-a42f-00a0c9223196},
but I can't delete it. I get an error message every time I try. Where did you get
the reg fixes you used to solve the problem?
On Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 10:29 am, F15hii wrote:
>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
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>HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\enum\root\LEGACY_NWLRVDM
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> and
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> HKLM\Software\CpXuFABmcW95
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>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.
>
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