quinriva Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 The device manager is empty. I open and it is completely empty.I have used regedit to check the system permissions, and yes the system does have permission so that isn't the problem. I have also checked to see if plug and play service is running, and it is (Started & Automatic). However I can't stop the plug and play service. The options for stop/restart are both greyed out, so I think that this may have something to do with the device manager issue.I first noticed this problem when I attempted to install the drivers for my i560 printer, and I believe that this may be the cause of the problem, as I regularly use the device manager to disable my cd drives, so it must be a recent occurance. How can I forcibly stop/restart plug n play or is there another solution that I am not aware of. I disabled the service through msconfig, restarted then re-enabled the service, but this had no effect.BTW, I am running Win 2003 - but this problem is exactly the same in Win XP and I figured it would get more views here.Also I have spent ages reading this page, but I have yet to find anything helpful there.Title edited -- Please, use [TAGS] in your topic's title.Please follow XP Forum Rules from now on.--Sonic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Plug-n-Play service is system service, you can't play with it, it always started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted March 5, 2006 Share Posted March 5, 2006 Found this potential fix here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quinriva Posted March 6, 2006 Author Share Posted March 6, 2006 That fix looks like it might actually work, but I got p***ed off and reinstalled Windows before I read your post. I'll keep it in mind for next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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