Shared Printer on XP Home takes 45 seconds to show properties dial

[Guest]

I have two XP Home PCs in a workgroup. One of them has a USB Canon printer
that is shared. On the other PC, I can see the shared printer and I can
print to it but when I click on Properties it takes 45 seconds for the
Properties Dialog box to open. Once it opens, it takes another 45 seconds
to bring up the Printing Preferences dialog box if I click on that. How can
I fix this? Thanks.

 

[Mitch Tulloch]

Does the same thing happen if you are trying to view the properties of a
file in a shared folder on the other PC?

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[Guest]

Hi Mitch.

I can access the properties of a shared file fine. It is just the printer
that is slow. At first, browsing the share was really slow until I deleted
the registry key which searches for scheduled tasks. Thanks.

 

[Mitch Tulloch]

Has this problem always occured or did it start recently? And have you
installed SP2 on your XP machines? I've heard a couple of reports of
something like this happening on XP SP2 machines, deleting and re-creating
the printer seems to fix it...

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[Guest]

I just set-up the network and shared printer for the first time so basically
you can say that it always occured. I deleted the printer object on my PC
and re-installed it but it didn't help. Funny I can print fine to it though.
Thanks for your assistance!

Rich

 

[grandad35]

I have two XP Home PCs in a workgroup. One of them has a USB Canon
printer
that is shared. On the other PC, I can see the shared printer and I
can
print to it but when I click on Properties it takes 45 seconds for
the
Properties Dialog box to open. Once it opens, it takes another 45
seconds
to bring up the Printing Preferences dialog box if I click on that.
How can
I fix this? Thanks.

I have exactly the same problem. My server is 3 months old with
XP-home. My Laptop has XP-Pro. I have 3 printers connected to the
server - a Canon i9900 and two HPs. The "Printing Preferences"
responds across the network almost instantly for the two HPs, but I
have the same 45 second delay that you see when I access the Canon
preferences or properties from my Laptop. I get the same 45 second
delay EVERY time that I access the preferences, even if the dialog was
closed only one second previously. If I print directly from the
server, there is no delay.

When I access files on the server from my laptop, there is a similar 20
second delay for the first access, but there is no delay as long as I
periodically access files across the network. If there is no network
activity for at least 10 minutes (I have not experimented to find the
exact time), the network connection seems to be "lost" and must be
reestablished with the same 20 second delay penalty. I do not
experience any delays when changing tabs or information in the
preferences dialog once it appears. I contacted Canon's tech support
and was told that they do not support this printer on a network.

Is it possible that Canon built this "feature" into their software to
discourage printing through the Photo Printing Wizard or other programs
(i.e. Photoshop) that allow user adjustable color management? Note that
Canon's "Easy PhotoPrint" experiences no such delays across the network,
but that it does not allow color management for papers or inks other
than Canon products (it ignores the default settings in Printing
Preferences)?

I would love to see a fix, if anyone knows of one.

 

[grandad35]

I have exactly the same problem. My server is 3 months old with
XP-home. My Laptop has XP-Pro. I have 3 printers connected to the
server - a Canon i9900 and two HPs. The "Printing Preferences"
responds across the network almost instantly for the two HPs, but I
have the same 45 second delay that you see when I access the Canon
preferences or properties from my Laptop. I get the same 45 second
delay EVERY time that I access the preferences, even if the dialog was
closed only one second previously. If I print directly from the
server, there is no delay.

When I access files on the server from my laptop, there is a similar 20
second delay for the first access, but there is no delay as long as I
periodically access files across the network. If there is no network
activity for at least 10 minutes (I have not experimented to find the
exact time), the network connection seems to be "lost" and must be
reestablished with the same 20 second delay penalty. I do not
experience any delays when changing tabs or information in the
preferences dialog once it appears.

I found two fixes. I re-ran the "Network Setup Wizard" on the laptop,
specifying that the laptop connects to the Internet through a
residential gateway (the laptop was connected directly to the Internet
when it was originally configured). The access to the Canon Preferences
and Properties are now also almost instant. The shared file access
delay was cured by disabling "Web Client Services" (found in Control
Panel==>Administrative Tools==>Services==>Web Client). This fix was
given int
(http://tinyurl.com/6jqhv).