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Hardware Found Wizard on XP-Prof Startup
Hello all.
I am sure this has been answered before because I remember looking it up on this newsgroup and I think Cari had answered it. However, I browsed the group and couldn't find the answer. Also I am not able to get to Cari's website for some reason. The problem is the following. I am using an IBM laptop with Windows XP Prof installed. I dock it at the office and use it with a wireless connection at home. I have several printers configured on it. 1. Three networked printers at work. 2. HP Deskjet 842C in the docking station at work. 3. Adobe acrobat and distiller 4. My HP All-in-one deskjet at home (shared through my home desktop) All the printers work fine. However... Every time I power up the laptop the Hardware Found Wizard starts up. Somehow it finds a "Printer". Just like that without a specific model. I usually dismiss the wizard with a Cancel. Several times I tried running it and checking the box to say "not to detect this any more", ... but it keeps coming back. A couple of months ago I remember reading an article by Cari about this and visiting her website to trouble shoot this. I tried several things but had not yet finished all the possible choices (my wife needed some shopping done and my kids wanted to spend my *our* money). I never got back to finish this issue. It is sufficiently annoying that I really want to get rid of it now. Last time I got into looking at some files in Windows\System32, I think and trying to analyze which of the files was bad or needed a reinstall. I understand that in XP you have to install the drivers before attaching the printer. But I need to know which printer. Can someone help with this, or direct me to the correct website? \tarek |
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Hardware Found Wizard on XP-Prof Startup
More on this.
Yesterday I was had my laptop in a building with WiFi. However, I did not have the SSID or key to get into the network. So essentially, my laptop was stand-alone. On powerup, again the hardware found wizard came up with a "Printer". I am at my wits end trying to track down this ghost printer in my system setup. I am almost to the point where I want to reinstall my Operating System. \tarek (Tarek) wrote in message . com... It is a laptop. But this problem exists whether I am on the docking station at work (on the network) or at home on the wireless network or just as a standalone laptop. \tarek "Cari \(MS-MVP\)" wrote in message ... And it's a standalone PC, not connected to a network where there might be a printer on another PC?????? Cari www.coribright.com |
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Hardware Found Wizard on XP-Prof Startup
More on this.
Yesterday I was had my laptop in a building with WiFi. However, I did not have the SSID or key to get into the network. So essentially, my laptop was stand-alone. On powerup, again the hardware found wizard came up with a "Printer". I am at my wits end trying to track down this ghost printer in my system setup. I am almost to the point where I want to reinstall my Operating System. \tarek (Tarek) wrote in message . com... It is a laptop. But this problem exists whether I am on the docking station at work (on the network) or at home on the wireless network or just as a standalone laptop. \tarek "Cari \(MS-MVP\)" wrote in message ... And it's a standalone PC, not connected to a network where there might be a printer on another PC?????? Cari www.coribright.com |
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