No devices in device manager!

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adamwalker13

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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 :

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Any Ideas? Oh yes, I'm running Windows Xp Home Service Pack 2
 
Check with [link=http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311504]<<<Microsoft>>>[/link]
 
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
 
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?
 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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