Device Manager - Not Responding

I ran device manager with view mode set to "by devices" and it was OK.
Then changed view mode to "by resources" and selected an item relating
to the onboard video display, and right clicked/properties.
I clicked on a tab or 2, but clicking on one of them, got the "not
responding" message.
had to kill the device manager.
Now, starting up Device Manager, it obviously goes to the
tab/item/properties that was last selected and just gives the "not
responding" message.

I'd like to run the device manager from the command line, giving
arguments on the command line to select the "by devices" view, which
will hopefully get out of the not responding bit.
Is this possible.
Hope someone knows :-)
Cheers
Gary

Fixed the problem.
Booted to safe mode & ran Device Man. which was OK, then rebooted to
normal user & all OK.
:-)


On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:20:52 +0930, Gary Dingle
wrote:

I ran device manager with view mode set to "by devices" and it was OK.
Then changed view mode to "by resources" and selected an item relating
to the onboard video display, and right clicked/properties.
I clicked on a tab or 2, but clicking on one of them, got the "not
responding" message.
had to kill the device manager.
Now, starting up Device Manager, it obviously goes to the
tab/item/properties that was last selected and just gives the "not
responding" message.

I'd like to run the device manager from the command line, giving
arguments on the command line to select the "by devices" view, which
will hopefully get out of the not responding bit.
Is this possible.
Hope someone knows :-)
Cheers
Gary

Have you rebooted then reopened device manager?
If so, and it still does the same thing, go to Start, Run, type in
devmgmt.msc and press enter. Does it come up in the default view then?
--
SC Tom

Gary Dingle wrote:
I ran device manager with view mode set to "by devices" and it was OK.
Then changed view mode to "by resources" and selected an item relating
to the onboard video display, and right clicked/properties.
I clicked on a tab or 2, but clicking on one of them, got the "not
responding" message.
had to kill the device manager.
Now, starting up Device Manager, it obviously goes to the
tab/item/properties that was last selected and just gives the "not
responding" message.

I'd like to run the device manager from the command line, giving
arguments on the command line to select the "by devices" view, which
will hopefully get out of the not responding bit.
Is this possible.
Hope someone knows :-)
Cheers
Gary

To get the equivalent of Device Manager, from a command line prompt,
you can use "devcon". The download for it, is also on this page.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272

devcon resources * output.txt

Opening output.txt right now, I see 167 responses, with this
for the video card.

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0291&SUBSYS_21DB19F1&REV_A1\4&78E EA88&0&0030
Name: NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT/GTO
Device is currently using the following resources:
MEM : fd000000-fdffffff
MEM : c0000000-dfffffff
MEM : fc000000-fcffffff
MEM : 000a0000-000bffff
IO : cc00-cc7f
IO : 03b0-03bb
IO : 03c0-03df
IRQ : 16

*******

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914231

"An .msc file for the MMC is closely related to Microsoft Internet
Explorer. The .msc file uses the same .dll files as Internet Explorer.
Additionally, the .msc file contains a list of all the .dll files
that are used by Internet Explorer and the MMC."

So that doesn't tell you what is broken, but indicates how the
engine is built.

devmgmt.msc accepts an environment variable, as described here.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241257

set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1

And this article, shows launching device manager with an
inline environment variable. But the syntax doesn't make
much sense to me.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../bb457107.aspx

Nothing I've seen so far, mentions anything about resetting
the thing.

If it is actually based on Internet Explorer engine,
any chance it may have "cached" information ? What
if you clear the Internet Explorer cache ?

Another option might be to try running it in Safe Mode,
on the chance that it won't behave the same.

Paul

thanks for coming back and telling us what you did to repair this
situation.

Ed

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:35:11 +0930, Gary Dingle wrote:

Fixed the problem.
Booted to safe mode & ran Device Man. which was OK, then rebooted to
normal user & all OK.
:-)


On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:20:52 +0930, Gary Dingle
wrote:

I ran device manager with view mode set to "by devices" and it was OK.
Then changed view mode to "by resources" and selected an item relating
to the onboard video display, and right clicked/properties.
I clicked on a tab or 2, but clicking on one of them, got the "not
responding" message.
had to kill the device manager.
Now, starting up Device Manager, it obviously goes to the
tab/item/properties that was last selected and just gives the "not
responding" message.

I'd like to run the device manager from the command line, giving
arguments on the command line to select the "by devices" view, which
will hopefully get out of the not responding bit.
Is this possible.
Hope someone knows :-)
Cheers
Gary