
Also deleting the bogus entries may not be as easy as just "delete".

Posts in other forums have never produced corruption in the exact same registry tree/keys - so unfortuneatly you will have to "look hard". In my case it was located in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\LEGACY_CCPROXYĪll the invalid entries ( which for me all began with $%& ) had to be deleted.įinding your currupted entries is not easy - but expand all sections in all controlsets with \Enum\ to find them. I'll be d a m n e d - it was indeed corruption introduced into the registry by the SP3 upgrade process itself.

Has anyone (beta testers/or current upgraders) had this experience? Is there a definitive fix? In an attempt to troubleshoot - I tried to bring up the Device Manager - and to my suprise - it is now empty. The working and enabled adpater was an INTEL MT1000/PCI. I have three adapters that used to show up - the Onboard RealTek adapter was disabled prior to starting upgrade as was the Firewire Port. But the real issue is that the Network Connections screen now does not show any of the NIC cards. After the upgrade, while trying to open "My Computer" - it now takes much longer.

I was upgrading a well maintained XP PRO SP2 to SP3 on a Compaq Presario S5400NX.

I have read artilces through the years having to do with corrupt registry entries in "HKLM\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\ENUM". Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 Download Now Released: Size: 5.Now that SP3 is officially released - I can't help but think that my annoying issue has surfaced once again (it has reared its ugly head through the years) - and it may be back with a vengence.
