Re: Very Slow response of Print Preview in Excel over shared netwo
- From: "Raymond Lo" <RaymondLo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 06:13:06 -0700
Hi GTS,
I will try to see if it is workable. And I'll let u know the status of
change in my case. Thanks anyway.
Raymond
"GTS" wrote:
> Sporadic reports of problems along these lines have appeared since the SP2
> release. At one of my client sites I have also run into this problem with
> only a few PC's and a particular network printer (Canon Image Runner) dating
> to upgrading them to SP2. The best speculation I have seen about this is
> that there is [a subtle bug in SP2 GDI32.DLL, ... that it involves a memory
> conflict with certain video drivers]. I saved this in some notes on the
> problem from past news discussions. To my knowledge Microsoft is either
> unaware of or indifferent to the issue.
>
> Here's an extract from another past news discussion that I had saved. It
> didn't work for me, but for what it's worth....
>
> I see a similar problem with SP2. An EPSON Sylus COLOR 880i is shared. The
> remote computer sees response times around 1 minute.
>
> I "solved" the problem but don't know why:
> The host computer is "Front" at 192.168.1.1
> One printer port on the remote computer is:
> \\Front\EPSON Stylus COLOR 880
> another port is defined as
> \\192.168.1.1\EPSON Sytlus COLOR 880
>
> Neither port worked except very slowly as above.
> However, if Printer Pooling is enabled it requires that both ports be
> selected.
> This seems to solve the slowness problem but I think I need to know more
> about what's going on.
>
> --
>
> "Raymond Lo" <RaymondLo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:53C76485-207A-428C-9140-E89A26038292@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having a problem in printing over a shared network printer. The
> > environment is as follows:
> > 1. A PC running win 98se is sharing a local laser printer Epson EPL6200L.
> > 2. My PC running win xpp (with sp2) is using the shared printer as my
> > default printer.
> >
> > Case of problem 1: When I use Excel (version 2003 with latest patches) to
> > preview a file (it is the same case as MS word), I always have to wait for
> > over serveral seconds before the preview screen appears. I notice that
> > there
> > is signals over the network because I saw the little icon flash on the
> > bottom
> > right of the status bar.
> >
> > Case of problem 2: Before problem 1 occured, my pc was running winxpp
> > sp1,
> > there was no problems at all. Recently I got a new computer & it is of
> > win
> > xpp sp2 and the problem 1 arises again. The windows comes with sp2 & I
> > can't remove it. What should I do?
> >
> > I am not too sure if it is because of the winxpp sp2 !!?? Now, I can't
> > get
> > ride of the sp2, what can I do for printing?
> >
> > Thanks for your advise & help.
> >
> > Raymond
> >
> >
>
>
>
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