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

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/b...&thread.id=967



"lmn1220" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:65A7F3EF-CD48-4E32-9FEC-(E-Mail Removed)...

> 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

"lmn1220" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:65A7F3EF-CD48-4E32-9FEC-(E-Mail Removed)...
> 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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