Device Manager : Hidden Devices

TimStitt said:

Brink said:

I'm installin Basic on a VM now. I'll report back when it's done. :)

UPDATE:
Confirmed. All editions of Windows 7 have compmgmt.msc.

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I finally found that post.... and guess what? I must have had another late one on sevenforums that night.

I owe everyone an apology for wasted time . It turns out that the poster never said that the compmgmt.msc was missing, just that the functionality changes. I've just remembered it wrong and now feel like silly idiot.... the beginnings of old age... dementia... memory in need of de-fragmentation?.... or too many tasty beverages while I'm helping out... I don't know.

Apologies all, it's been a day of red faces for me.

-Timo

Bula Tim



Been busy watching the soccer world cup matches - almost like a zombie now given the different timezones

Regards

nonpasaran said:

hi Ted
thank you for tuttorial but i want to know someting;
allready when i open the device menager i can select "Show Hidden Devices" option and i can see the hidden / ghost drivers and when i do step 1-2 nothing changing
So why we are doing step 1 and 2 ?
Why it necessary?

I guess nobody seen my post

HI,
I just replaced the contents of the PATH in the environment variables, can you please gv info abt resetting it to its prev value???Please help me ...

mistymount123 said:

HI,
I just replaced the contents of the PATH in the environment variables, can you please gv info abt resetting it to its prev value???Please help me ...

One could set the default values as when the system was installed, but there may be other program installations that had modified if further, so you may run into issues with that.

Anyone: would a system restore fix this?

will there be any modifications to my data including deletion ?????? after restoring..............

Brink said:

Hello Misty,

Any installed programs, changes made to system files, and changes made to the registry will be restored back to how they were at the date the restore point was created. User files and data will not be affected. :)

System Restore

Of course, you should have a backup plan in place for at least your data files!