Check that the 'Plug and Play' service is running. Check Event Viewer for
errors.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"david" wrote:
| Hi everyone i hope someone can help!
| as the subject says my device manager on windows xp home edition does not
| show any of my devices at all, nothing comes up at all. I have recently
| noticed the problem because i disabled my network connection and when i
went
| to enable it again i found the device manager showed nothing. The only
| explanation i can think of is that i ran adaware se and avg virus scanner
| recently which both picked up viruses causing popups and i deleleted the
| files. I have been trying to fix it for sometime now and got no where,
some
| people have said that it happens when the plugandplay drivers arent
started
| for some reason, but i checked in services and msconfig and they are
running
| fine, Is there any way of fixing this without a full re-intall?