Re: Microsoft altering XP with updates?

From: Thomas Ferguson (tomf_at_mvps.org)
Date: 04/29/04


Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:21:38 -0300

I have not come across this problem before but that does not mean that
others have not had the same problem.

I would:
 download the de-install cleanup utility and the latest XP driver from
Lexmark's www site;
http://downloads.lexmark.com/cgi-perl/downloads.cgi

delete the printer driver now installed using Control Panel Printers and
Faxes Delete Printer;

run the clean-up utility;

install the new driver according to the instructions on the web page and
on-screen during the installation.

That should do it. Let us know.

Tom
MSMVP-DTS

"STA" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:093001c42d99$377335c0$3a01280a@phx.gbl...
>I had a leximark X63 successfully working for one year
> and when I initally installed it on XP no warning came
> up. Recently my computer has caused my printer to go off
> line and says I have to remove the printer hardware or I
> will have a shut down. Each time I reboot my printer it
> now has a warning this is not an approved microsoft
> printer. Microsoft must have updated my XP to do this.
> Has this happened to anyone else and if so this somehow
> seems very wrong to after the fact alter our programs to
> do this. Is there a way around this and is there a
> rebellion against this? THX



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