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Originally Posted by Warren J. Hairston
Hi all,
I am a reseller/consultant and I appear to be among the many who are
experiencing 30+ second delays in opening the print dialog from ANY program
running under Win XP SP2. My customer's brand new Win XP SP2 machine
exhibits this behavior every time he tries to access the HP LJ 6P shared
from his networked Win ME machine.
Unfortunately, this new machine came with SP2 pre-installed, so I couldn't
uninstall it if I wanted to.
I've read several complaints about this problem in various forums, but I
have yet to see a workaround or solution. Is Microsoft working on this? Is
there a possible fix (even in testing) that I can obtain - or do I have to
upset my customer even more by telling him he has to live with it? Would
purchasing a print server device help?
I desperately need an answer, so thanks in advance!
- Warren
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Dear Warren,
I have also come across the same problem,
On my XP Pro SP1 box, printing to both Samba shared printers and WIN98 shared printers, I used to get a 10 second delay on opening the print properties window.
On an XP Pro SP2 box, delays of about 20-40 seconds.
I have been able to fix this problem by turning off bi-directional support on the shared printers.
To do this goto the printer properties , click on the "Ports" tab, and uncheck the "Enable bidirectional support" check box.
then click ok.
See if that helps.
- James