windows no longer identifies modem as a hardware

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Hi to All,
This is a very strange problem I've come across. My Windows no
longer recognises modem as a valid hardware. Means now I dont find any
device of type 'modem' in the device manager. This is because of a
mistake I made while editing the system registry.
I was using an internal modem till now. For quite some time,
it was working a little slow and used to hang after every 5 minutes or
so. Since the phone line seemed OK (my friend's external modem was
working well on that line), I decided to reinstall the modem. So I
removed all the modem manufacturer's entries from the system registry.
To my shock, Windows now fails to recognise any modem device connected
to the computer. When I plug one, it always shows "unknown device" in
"new hardware found"
Please Help

Sanyam Yadav


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[Neil]

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Try system restore and see if there is a restore point just before you did
the registry edit, failing that does the modem manufacturers website have
any drivers.

Neil

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> Hi to All,
> This is a very strange problem I've come across. My Windows no
> longer recognises modem as a valid hardware. Means now I dont find any
> device of type 'modem' in the device manager. This is because of a
> mistake I made while editing the system registry.
> I was using an internal modem till now. For quite some time,
> it was working a little slow and used to hang after every 5 minutes or
> so. Since the phone line seemed OK (my friend's external modem was
> working well on that line), I decided to reinstall the modem. So I
> removed all the modem manufacturer's entries from the system registry.
> To my shock, Windows now fails to recognise any modem device connected
> to the computer. When I plug one, it always shows "unknown device" in
> "new hardware found"
> Please Help
>
> Sanyam Yadav
>
>
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