Legacy printer driver headaches(Minolta)

[Jim B]

Here's my situation-I've Windows XP Home installed and I
was having problems with my Legacy Minolta Pageworks 6E
printer- initially, the printer worked after I downloaded
the new driver,but it decided to go on strike.I then
deleted the driver, downloaded the driver from the
Minolta website, attempted to install. The driver
informed me that the old driver needed to be uninstalled,
so I gave it the go-ahead. It then detected a running
application(Via Installshield?) and told me to shut it
down. I pulled up the Task Manager,closed out the one
running app in the background,but the driver setup spit
back at me. I then attempted to install the old W95/98/Me
driverusing the compatibility wizard,(tried all settings,
W95/98,but no luck. I even went into server properties in
the printer section on the control panel,deleted all the
leftover files from the properties window,but the driver
seems to think there's still an old version on my
box.Does this mean I have to get into the registry
somehow?
PS-The driver isn't digitally "signed" by Msoft.
Thanks,
Jim

[Ali Naqvi [MSFT]]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Print\Environments\Windo
ws NT x86\Drivers\Version-3

Remove your driver key from here, and ensure that you deleted all the driver
files from the system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3 directory.

remember to 'net stop spooler' before you do this. 'net start spooler' and
then re-install the printer with the new driver.
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Ali Naqvi
Microsoft Printing, Imaging and Fax Team

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"Jim B" > wrote in message
...
> Here's my situation-I've Windows XP Home installed and I
> was having problems with my Legacy Minolta Pageworks 6E
> printer- initially, the printer worked after I downloaded
> the new driver,but it decided to go on strike.I then
> deleted the driver, downloaded the driver from the
> Minolta website, attempted to install. The driver
> informed me that the old driver needed to be uninstalled,
> so I gave it the go-ahead. It then detected a running
> application(Via Installshield?) and told me to shut it
> down. I pulled up the Task Manager,closed out the one
> running app in the background,but the driver setup spit
> back at me. I then attempted to install the old W95/98/Me
> driverusing the compatibility wizard,(tried all settings,
> W95/98,but no luck. I even went into server properties in
> the printer section on the control panel,deleted all the
> leftover files from the properties window,but the driver
> seems to think there's still an old version on my
> box.Does this mean I have to get into the registry
> somehow?
> PS-The driver isn't digitally "signed" by Msoft.
> Thanks,
> Jim
>