device manager all of a sudden go blank?

[Guest lmn1220]

out of no where my device manager is blank. this happened another time when

i loaded a game that was not for windows xp. i got that corrected but today i

didn't do anything and it was blank again.

 

does anyone know why it did it this time?

 

thanks

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lmn1220

[Guest Charlie]

Re: device manager all of a sudden go blank?

 

Just solved a similar matter on my XP machine. I had just uninstalled Norton 2008 and it had left a corrupt registry key that contained many nonsensical entries. If you also have Windows XP SP3 installed (as i did) try this link for a fix

 

http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=nis_feedback&thread.id=967

 

 

 

"lmn1220" <lmn1220@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:65A7F3EF-CD48-4E32-9FEC-92598D1ED493@microsoft.com...

> out of no where my device manager is blank. this happened another time when

> i loaded a game that was not for windows xp. i got that corrected but today i

> didn't do anything and it was blank again.

>

> does anyone know why it did it this time?

>

> thanks

> --

> lmn1220

[Guest Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

Re: device manager all of a sudden go blank?

 

"lmn1220" <lmn1220@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:65A7F3EF-CD48-4E32-9FEC-92598D1ED493@microsoft.com...

> out of no where my device manager is blank. this happened another time

> when

> i loaded a game that was not for windows xp. i got that corrected but

> today i

> didn't do anything and it was blank again.

>

> does anyone know why it did it this time?

 

 

Device Manager and Network Connections may be blank after you install

Windows XP Service Pack 3

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953791

 

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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM

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