Printer icon no longer appears when printing

[Guest]

Windows 98, 2000 and I think my home XP Pro shows an icon in the lower right
task bar when a document is being printed, or is spooled for printing. The
icon goes away after the printer has (or has finished) the job.

My XP Home edition, on a Dell Vostro 32 bit does not show this icon. As a
result, I sometimes exit the window I'm printing, and the document never
prints because it hadn't completed spooling to the printer.

How can I get that icon back? I don't see any printer properties that lets
one check or uncheck the icon. The icon also used to bring up the contents of
the printer's print jobs if you double-clicked it.

The Vostro is less than a month old, and it has never shown the icon.

I also notice that some print jobs take forever, like in Word, when you
select File->Print, it takes 15-20 seconds for the print window to open.

All my printers areon the network, either on a server or they have their own
IP.

Any ideas?

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308217

HOW TO: Enable or Disable Print Job Notifications in Windows XP



there is a print newsgroup as well so I think you traveled down the wrong
path. But it's a convoluted one at times.
--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Guest]

I haven't tried it yet, but the article helps.
I thought I was in a printer type group, but what I was looking at when I
submitted were search results that I thought would help, not a particular
groups postings. The groups to pick from in the drop-down when submitting
were all non alphabetical, and some are so similar to others you don't know
which one to pick! Then I couldn't (with the time I had) find out how to put
it to a different, or multiple groups.

One of these days!

Thank you for your response and understanding!

I also found out that in the IE status bar at the bottom of the page, the
printer icon momentarily shows up, but that's only for IE, not for all apps.

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[Guest]

The instructions at the link you provided worked, however, the notification
boxes were already both checked (local and network) when I got there. After I
exited, then it started working.

Thanks for the info!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308217

HOW TO: Enable or Disable Print Job Notifications in Windows XP



there is a print newsgroup as well so I think you traveled down the wrong
path. But it's a convoluted one at times.
--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Windows 98, 2000 and I think my home XP Pro shows an icon in the lower
right
task bar when a document is being printed, or is spooled for printing. The
icon goes away after the printer has (or has finished) the job.

My XP Home edition, on a Dell Vostro 32 bit does not show this icon. As a
result, I sometimes exit the window I'm printing, and the document never
prints because it hadn't completed spooling to the printer.

How can I get that icon back? I don't see any printer properties that lets
one check or uncheck the icon. The icon also used to bring up the contents
of
the printer's print jobs if you double-clicked it.

The Vostro is less than a month old, and it has never shown the icon.

I also notice that some print jobs take forever, like in Word, when you
select File->Print, it takes 15-20 seconds for the print window to open.

All my printers areon the network, either on a server or they have their
own
IP.

Any ideas?