I recently did a clean install of windows xp home edition. Everything works
fine except my printer won't print. It installed fine, but when I go to
print it just freezes and nothing prints. I have tried the troubleshooter
and that was no help. I have plugged it into the lpt1 port and usb ports,
that was no help either. Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanx in advance.
Beats me.
Still, that does reminds me that ever since moving beyond Win95 (or
98?) I have always had problems with my HP 870Cxi printer. What
happens is that it installs the printer driver just fine and the
printer works great.
However, following a reset then Windows cannot find the printer any
more. So I have to completely uninstall the printer driver and
reinstall it again just to get the printer working.
Wooooo... the creepy mysteries of Windows 5.x.
The one thing I hate Microsoft for beyond all else is with the killing
all CD changers. As back even before NT4 I used to have a great six
disk 12x CD changer on my server.
Ok, so it did not share too well, but it was great being able to have
six CD disks on-line at once all in the single 5 1/4" drive bay. Then
Microsoft killed this popular market stone dead when their new system
only allowed one drive allocation per device.
So ever since then I had to swap the CDs manually, which defeats the
point of having a CD changer. And in fact I have no idea just where my
CD changer is these days.
And the result is that anyone wanting to have six or more CDs on-line
now needs to buy many CD drives and the expensive equipment to contain
them.
So all thanks to Microsoft's bad programming decisions, then that is
why you now pay a lot more for your hardware.
Cardman.
