Device Manager Link Broken In System

[PsychoRich]

Yeah

It's been broken since the first Beta I tested.

I now have Vista Home Premium with SP1 installed, (techNet RC release), and
it still doesn't work. Kinda annoying. Also does not work on friends Ultimate
Version.

When you click "System Propeties" in "My Computer" it opens the
ControlPanel/System window; the first link in the Upper Lefthand Corner of
the window leads to Device Manager. It does not work, and never has.

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[SG]

Hi,

Click Start_Run and type: devmgmt.msc /s
Does it open? and if so does UAC prompt you before opening?

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[Richard G. Harper]

I regret to inform you that it does, and always has, worked on my system.

 

[ciaovista]

I regret to inform you that it does, and always has, worked on my system.

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Yeah

It's been broken since the first Beta I tested.

I now have Vista Home Premium with SP1 installed, (techNet RC release),
and
it still doesn't work. Kinda annoying. Also does not work on friends
Ultimate
Version.

When you click "System Propeties" in "My Computer" it opens the
ControlPanel/System window; the first link in the Upper Lefthand Corner of
the window leads to Device Manager. It does not work, and never has.

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It used to work at the begining,but after one reinstall and SP1 installed
,Don't know which one to blame,or both,it is not working now!Not to mention I
couldn't boot Windows at all after SP1....

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Addendum:

It could be any other shell extension causing the problem. You may use the ShellExView tool to determine the culprit. See "Method 2" in the following page.

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

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Hello,

When you click "System Propeties" in "My Computer" it opens the
ControlPanel/System window; the first link in the Upper Lefthand Corner of
the window leads to Device Manager. It does not work, and never has.

I've had this problem and solved it after reading this link:

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=361952


The article says to carefully check what registry entries you have in
the
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers tree

compare the keys you see on your computer with those from another clean
installation of Vista.

I've found a difference in the ContextMenuHandlers tree, I had a
registry key referring to a file named CopyPathExt.dll and after I
removed the registry key, the Device Manager link in the System dialog
box has begun to work again!!

Attached is an image of the
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers tree after removing the
CopyPathExt.dll mentioned above.


+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Filename: CleanDevmgmt.png |
|Download: http://forums.techarena.in/attachment.php?attachmentid=6763|
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+

 

[Ramesh, MS-MVP]

Hi mateia,

It's not a bug in the Operating System afaik, and I can't replicate the problem here in my Vista SP1 systems. This is just another third-party shell extension problem.

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Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
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Hello Ramesh ,

- I will check if the bug is still present in Vista SP1. If it still
is, why can't Microsoft fix the bug forever ?

 

[Ramesh Srinivasan, MS-MVP]

Thanks for the update. I'm wondering why ShellExView did not disable the
extension.