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| W98 Device Manager Duplicates |
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| #1 By 2062 (65.100.103.119) at Thursday, January 24, 2002 07:49:22 PM |
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What you are referring to is commonly called "ghost devices". To explain how this happens, let me explain how devices are detected in win9x (win95/98/me)
When you install a device, it adds a .inf file to c:\%windir%\inf\, and adds the settings to the registry. For instance if you update your modem driver, it adds a files to windows\inf and puts settings in the registry. If you update drivers, the old inf is still in windows\inf, the only thing that changes is the registry settings. This is why if you update a driver, then restore the registry, the old driver works fine. However this presents a problem. When you view device manager, it lists all active drivers. Device manager is actually 2 files - drvidx.bin and drvdata.bin, both in the windows\inf folder. These 2 files make up device manager. When you look at device manager (devman), it only shows active drivers. When you go to safe mode, it shows everything in devman, show it shows every driver. This is why 'ghost' devices show up - there older drivers youve installed. Installing win9x often causes this. THere is much debate how to remove ghost devices. In my opinion, you should delete every ghost device. For instance if it lists your monitor twice - delete both. Do not delete anything in the system catagory. After doing this in safe mode, rename drvdata.bin and drvidx.bin, once you restart these files will be remade. However this is unrelated to your problem. How much ram do you have? What processor do u have? When you start the computer, how much free system resources do u have? To check this right click my computer, properties, performance. If you have less than 80% system resources free at startup, you have memory issues. Disable programs from startup. -gosh |
