Re: XP SP2 seems to cause unwanted traffic to printer

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Gctc wrote:
Hi Steve
Thanks for the pointers but if it has improved it is only slight.
Currently enabled ports are Parallel
SMB tcpip
SNMP udp
Salutation
FTP Client
Send Email
Mail Notification

All these are required to allow the machine to function in all of its roles.

Current protocols used are
SMB
TCP/IP
SNMP
HTTP

Peter

All those protocols are going to chat with your hosts. Nothing you can do about it if you're going to use them.

Steve



"Steve N." wrote:


Gctc wrote:


After loading SP2 certain programs like WORD have to communicate with the printer every time you format anything in the document. My photo editor is even worse. If I delete the printer everything speeds up remarkably.
PC and printer are connected via a switch where the activity was noticed.
Have downloaded the latest printer drivers and lastest XP updates to no avail.

Any ideas?

Almost forgot... and disable any unused protocols at the printer itself; all you should need is TCP/IP.

Steve


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