... .... ended up on the most drastic path: deleting the whole enum branch, rebooting and letting the enum branch re-populate itself result was a nightmare I would not wish on my enemeis; among other things THe whole set of USB controllers was gone [and my system backup was on an external USB drive ....) I ended up recovering the file ntuser.dat on a different computer;...

...you quoted .... ended up on the most drastic path: deleting the whole enum branch, rebooting and letting the enum branch re-populate itself result was a nightmare I would not wish on my enemeis; among other things THe whole set of USB controllers was gone [and my system backup was on an external USB drive ....) I ended up recovering the file ntuser.dat on a different computer; ...

... article you quoted .... ended up on the most drastic path: deleting the whole enum branch, rebooting and letting the enum branch re-populate itself result was a nightmare I would not wish on my enemeis; among other things THe whole set of USB controllers was gone [and my system backup was on an external USB drive ....) I ended up recovering the file ntuser.dat on a different computer; ...