My system is XP Pro SP3. The problem I have is regarding the "Device Manager". I am unable to view "Non-Plug and Play drivers" even when I click "View", "Show Hidden Devices". And yes I have Clicked "System Properties", "Advanced", "Environment Variables", "User Variables" and "System Variables" with entries of "devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices" with variable value of "1". This problem has just occurred recently after installing and uninstalling various firewalls and anti virus programs. Just a footnote I am logged in as "administrator". If someone can help me out with this problem it would be much appreciated
Click on what? I tried another admin account and it's still the same. Can see all devices EXCEPT non plug and play.
what happens when you click on View. Did you try this http://www.ditii.com/2009/12/08/windows-xp-pro-non-plug-and-play-properties-dont-display-correctly/
Thanks for the reply. A bit confused now as my computer skills are rather limited. What I did after reading the above was run regedit and found that the key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{8ECC055D-047F-11D1-A537-0000F8753ED1} " was missing. entered new key {8ECC055D-047F-11D1-A537-0000F8753ED1} and edit string "EnumPropPages32 REG_SZ SysSetup.dll,LegacyDriverPropPageProvider" Did I do this right ? Anyway non plug in devices still do not show. This part confuses me as she added....This is added by the legcydrv.inf file, which is owned by the “Device: LegacyDriver" <<< can you enlighten me on this? Thanks.