I recently ran chkdsk on my hardrive, which fixed several hundred problems.. all seemed well until I checked the device manager tab of my computer.. Theres nothing there! You can see what I mean below :
http://imagecloset.com/8/06160219screeny.jpg
Any Ideas? Oh yes, I’m running Windows Xp Home Service Pack 2
do you have Upnp disabled in the BIOS ?
Its deffinatly a software problem, as upnp is enabled and it works when I boot from another hard-drive..
Check with [link=http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311504]<<>>[/link]
[COLOR=“Red”]Just read Karni’s post. Looks like he’s found your answer
Wow, i’ve never come across this before!
Click the ‘View’ menu and choose ‘show hidden devices’. Also try playing about with the various view modes
Are you running as an Administrator?
Also try reverting back to the default Windows XP Luna theme
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Sorry guys, but still no hope. The Plug and play service is on automatic and running. Reverted to default skin and nothing, and I am running as admin… any more ideas?
Windows restore, repair or complete reinstall will definately fix up this problem.
true. But I’d rather repair it… I have a feeling it may be a spyware called Apropos…
Then insert your windows cd and use the repair function from it. See, if it works~!
Well is there anything actually wrong with your hardware configuration?
I would leave things be for now, if it’s only the device manager playing up
well, I would, but my sound has no stopped working. I cant install the drivers because of the problem, and my network connections have disapeared. From reading other threads, apparantly the windows xp repair option doesnt fix this…
Sorry, but I don’t know what to suggest.
This is a rare problem, certainly I’ve never come across it before.
Try Google or Microsoft Support
How about sytem restore?
Well, after hours of trawling through google searches I think I’ve found the answer… but I now have yet another problem… with dos itself…
On a normal computer, in a command prompt, you can type find and it registers as a parameter. But on my infected pc, if you type find at prompt it says:
" ‘find’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. "
Other parameters such as “tree” also do not work. I need the find parameter to run the repair program.
This is very bad… isnt it…? Any ideas?
EDIT: Ok, fixed dos problem… All perls fault sigh now running program… fingers crossed
What were you doing on your computer before everything started going wrong?
Go back and check his first post. You will get your answer mega~!
ok… not apropos it would seem… tool turned up nothing. I have tried everything with no avail.
sigh
Looks like time for a re-install. Its kinda annoying that this is the first problem that really got me.
I’ve tried editing permissions in registry, removing spyware and viruses, uninstalling security updates, running specialst removal tools, restarting upnp services, repairing corrupt registry keys… I think its hopeless…
Just look how long this thread is (http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1051715405)… and theres still people who cant fix it. Have I finally contracted an ir-repairable problem?
I think that may be the case 
Yeah, that thread is quite long isn’t it, too long for me to read through it all 
Before you give up hope, try running a registry cleaner app such as ccleaner