winxp services deleted - please help

Many of the winxp services such as "plug and play" seem to have been
deleted, i.e., under services under computer management, i see only
about 15 services and all are Nero, Office, Canon camera etc - I dont
see standard xp services such as plug and play. As a result I am
having a lot of problems (my device manager, netwrok connections etc
are all empty, the audio doesnt work - sound card isnt getting
recognized etc.) For example, msinfo32.exe says "Can't collect
information" for all the devices.

How can I fix this?

I am not sure about the exact source of the problem - my brother was
using my system and it seems he manually registered a dll file
(ole.dll or something) since mcafee auto update wasnt working. (mcafee
is working fine now though) - he mentioned that he had to reboot the
system after which windows defender or something said that some of the
services will have to be deleted.
.

Relevant Pages

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    ... There is a Plug and Play Service and Universal Plug and Play ... Disk Manager, Logical Disk Manager Admin Service, Smart Card, Telephony, ... Remote Access Auto Connection Manager ...
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  • Re: Device Manager
    ... As with others in this string my Device Manager is blank. ... stating that the plug and play service is unavailable. ... I'm using a Dell Inpiron 9300 running Windows XP Media Center with SP 3. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
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