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| 775145 | 2009-05-19 10:45:00 | I an using windows xp. In Hardware - Devics Manager there is a empty window. Is there any way I can restore all my device drivers? System Restore has no previous dates highlighted and the CD drive is not working. Any help would be much appreciated. Les Ohope |
Egull (1048) | ||
| 775146 | 2009-05-19 10:58:00 | See if this works (www.annoyances.org). It involves going into the registry, so be careful what you do. Go to RUN type Regedt32 Then go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum With the ENUM KEY HIGHLIGHTED Click SECURITY menu that appears in the toolbar, then PERMISSIONS. (In XP you right click the key and choose permissions) You may have to ADD the group for the profile that can't see the device manager/printers/network contents. Give this group READ ONLY permission and then give SYSTEM full control. In some instances, you will need to go to ADVANCED and check reset permissions on all child objects. Click yes in the warning window and reboot. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 775147 | 2009-05-19 22:22:00 | The drivers are probably still there, Windows just probably isn't displaying them for some reason. Go to command prompt and type in sfc /scannow. See if that fixes anything And in device manager, what happens when you scan for new devices? Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 775148 | 2009-05-19 22:23:00 | Oops, double posted:p | Blam (54) | ||
| 775149 | 2009-05-21 05:47:00 | See if this works (www.annoyances.org). It involves going into the registry, so be careful what you do. Go to RUN type Regedt32 Then go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum With the ENUM KEY HIGHLIGHTED Click SECURITY menu that appears in the toolbar, then PERMISSIONS. (In XP you right click the key and choose permissions) You may have to ADD the group for the profile that can't see the device manager/printers/network contents. Give this group READ ONLY permission and then give SYSTEM full control. In some instances, you will need to go to ADVANCED and check reset permissions on all child objects. Click yes in the warning window and reboot. Thanks Speedy......I fixed the problem in Run...Services.msc...and changed all back to automatic. How they became disabled I don't know....Les Ohope |
Egull (1048) | ||
| 775150 | 2009-05-21 05:54:00 | The drivers are probably still there, Windows just probably isn't displaying them for some reason. Go to command prompt and type in sfc /scannow. See if that fixes anything And in device manager, what happens when you scan for new devices? Blam Hi Blam6..........I fixed the problem in Run...Services.msc...and changed all back to automatic. How they became disabled I don't know....Les Ohope |
Egull (1048) | ||
| 775151 | 2009-05-21 07:30:00 | Hopefully you diddn't untick them in msconfig, cause if you reboot the services won't run again.. Go run>msconfig>services tab>make sure all are ticked. Blam |
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