PC in slow motion while printing

Let's try the obvious first:
have you gone to HP and gotten the latest driver and/or
patches?
have you wiped out and reloaded the printer?
Do you have anything buggy, nosey, and interfering such
as Norton or MacAfee AV running?
>-----Original Message-----
>OS is WinXP Home on a 2.0ghz machine with 512mb ram.
>I use an HP1120C Deskjet printer.
>
>After sending a job to the printer everything within
Windows slows
>down dramatically. Surfing pages slows down, changing
between
>programs slows down, it seems as though the CPU is
devoted
>to the print process more than anything. It seems as
though every
>thing the computer does now is done in slow motion while
printing.
>As soon as the document is printed the degraded
performance
>disappears.
>
>In the past while using Win98 or ME with the same
printer, I never
>ever had this problem. I could send a job to the printer
and continue
>with other tasks with no problems at all. No slow downs.
>
>My settings are to "Spool printing documents so program
finishes printing faster"
>and "Start printing immediately".
>
>I think there has been a major change with the way XP
handles spooling.
>Seems like with a new OS things would get better rather
than worse?
>
>Does anyone know how I can use an older more reliable
print spooler?
>Or perhaps a fix for this problem?
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