Re: No printer ports on Windows XP, can not install printer. They

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It seems I am now unable to load USB printing support. Is the a registry
entry needed for this as well?

"Alan Morris [MSFT]" wrote:

this sounds like the local port monitor registry key was edited.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors\Local
Port

REG_SZ
Driver=localspl.dll


here's the knowledgebase article on this
No Local Ports Are Available for Printers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255507


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"Matt" <Matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:CF2B57ED-D73B-479D-B4EC-A906DB7294FC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://i39.tinypic.com/1etp9v.jpg

Here is a picture showing all of the ports missing, not just LPT1. Trying
to
reinstall his USB HP 1020 Printer.

"Matt" wrote:

A friend of mine called me the other day about a printing problem. I
remoted
into his machine and found there were no printers.

So, I went to add a printer and during the wizard I discover he has no
local
LPT1 or USB ports and no option to install a new port!

Googling it doesn't return much. Here is a link to a screen shot...

[IMG]http://i41.tinypic.com/219uom9.jpg[/IMG]

Anybody ever seen this. It's a Dell Precision 690, USB and LPT interfaces
show in device manager... crazy!




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