Re: Finding Printer Driver on C Drive

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From: Mike E. (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 05/07/04


Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 15:02:03 -0700

It did it before I ever added a USB printer.
>-----Original Message-----
>If XP detects a USB printer everytime on startup and you
have not changed
>the USB port, then the printer is installed incorrectly
or incompletely.
>
>Uninstall and reinstall .... using
>http://www.coribright.com/Windows/Article%20One.htm
>--
>Cari
>MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
>www.coribright.com
>
>
>"Mike E." <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:9d2201c43468$4de605a0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> No. Every start up the Found New Hardware Wizard says it
>> has detected a printer, even if I disconnect the
printer.
>> My printer connects to a USB slot on the front of the
>> computer. The computer is a Shuttle Spacewalker model
>> FV24. I have previously installed this driver from the
CD
>> and the printer does print. Someone told me there must
be
>> a printer card installed. If that is true I sure cannot
>> find it. This computer has only one PCI slot and in that
>> slot is a dial-up modem card. I deleted LPTENUM as it
says
>> to do in MSKB.
>>
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q298/3/70.
>> asp
>> After I restarted the computer it again detected a new
>> printer and LPTENUM was back in the registry. Then I
>> followed the directions as S. Sengupta said to do. I
tried
>> to complete the Found New Hardware Wizard. The wizard
>> says it cannot install this hardware. I then restarted
the
>> computer and again it found a new printer. This time I
>> inserted the printer CD to try to complete the wizard.
The
>> wizard says it cannot install this hardware.
>>
>
>
>.
>



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