XP Home problems after Service Pack 2

hipswiggle · Sep 29, 2004

I've been dealing with my friend's laptop ever since he installed Service Pack 2. The current problem after installing SP2 is that there no longer is anything listed in device manager. I can open device manager through Control Panel or by right-clicking My Computer and going through Control Panel, but either way there are no devices listed. I know that the display adaptor is still working because I can see a high resolution and good color scheme. Also the print drivers are working fine.
This is a Toshiba Laptop with a Celeron Processor running XP Home.
Any ideas?

snakefoot · Sep 29, 2004

Make sure your XP-user is part the Administrator-group, if this is already the case then try these steps to solve your problem:

1) Plug and Play:

Start / Run / type msconfig / OK / Services
Verify that the Hide all Microsoft Services checkbox is NOT checked.
Scroll down the list of services until you see the service named Plug
and Play and make sure it is checked.

If that didn't help...

-Right-click My Computer / left-click Manage. The Computer Management
window appears.
-Click Services and Applications / Services / Standard and scroll down
to Plug and Play.
Double-click Plug and Play (if a warning dialog box appears, click OK).
The Plug and Play Properties window appears. Click to change the
Startup Type to Manual,
and then click Apply (if a warning dialog box appears, click OK).
-Under the Service Status section of the Plug and Play Properties
windows, click the
Start button. This will start the Plug and Play service.
Click OK on the Plug and Play Properties.

2) Check the security permissions (be careful here!):

Start / type "regedit" /
HKLM / System / CurrentControlSet / Enum /

Right click Enum -> Permissions
Set permissions for System -> Full Control.
Set permissions for Administrators -> Full Control

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