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I deleted my Plug n Play Software Device Enumerator, do I need it?
This is a question about a resolved problem's side effect,
I lost sound yesterday when booting win 7 after a Steam update. There was a yellow "!" next to my Plug and Play Software Device Enumerator as well as my Facetime HD Camera and my Cirrus Logic CS4206B and AMD High Definition Audio Device in Device Manager (I'm running Win7 Home Premium 64 bit on a mid 2011 iMac on a partition via bootcamp 5).
After lots of searching, I resolved the issue by deleting the nonworking Plug n Play Software Device Enumerator driver and running System File Checker from C:\ prompt. Reset and everything is working, I am a very happy human, but the Plug n Play Software Device Enumerator is still gone from Device Manager.
I had assumed, like other drivers, Windows would detect and re-install it. I don't even know what it is (or if I possibly could have just run the System File Checker and resolved the issue without deleting it) but I want to know if this is likely to cause problems down the line, or if it is something I shouldn't worry about. Everything is working fine, I just no longer see it in Device Manager, whereas deleting the other drivers would lead to their re-install...
Anyone got anything for me on this? Basically just looking to know if I'm ok, or should try and re-install this Software Device Enumerator. Thanks!