Printer

Let it continue through the installation. At the end you'll probably have
two printers showing in Printers & Faxes in the Control Panel. Right click
and uninstall both. Reboot the PC. You should now only get a single
install after the PC has started.

Cari
www.coribright.com

"Steven Bell" wrote in message
...
Adding a new printer to my machine. It's a Sharp AJ-5030
all in one, print/fax/copier/scanner. I got the latest
update in driver from Sharp. This is supposed to be
compatible with XP. But after installation, the printer
is working, but everytime I start XP it shows new
hardware and wants to install with the New hardware
wizard. I cancel, and XP tells me the little message
that my hardware might not work properly because the
intallation didn't complete.
This is irritating. How do I stop it?

-----Original Message-----
Let it continue through the installation. At the end
you'll probably have
two printers showing in Printers & Faxes in the Control
Panel. Right click
and uninstall both. Reboot the PC. You should now only
get a single
install after the PC has started.

Cari
www.coribright.com

Ok, thanks for the response. I have tried this again and
again. The installation wizard (whether I choose to do
it automatically or manually, it finds the same files
that I give it) gets to a certain point and says "Setup
cannot copy the files:" and the first is sPpdpsrv.exe,
then sPmnt.dll, then sPlnkUtl.dll and I don't know what
these are, except system files? I don't know. So I
cancel installation and I'm back where I started. Any
suggestions would be appreciated..thanks

Steven Bell

Ok, thanks for the response. I have tried this again and
again. The installation wizard (whether I choose to do
it automatically or manually, it finds the same files
that I give it) gets to a certain point and says "Setup
cannot copy the files:" and the first is sPpdpsrv.exe,
then sPmnt.dll, then sPlnkUtl.dll and I don't know what
these are, except system files? I don't know. So I
cancel installation and I'm back where I started. Any
suggestions would be appreciated..thanks

Steven Bell
.
I found this thread while searching for an answer to my
problem -- don't know if it will help. ~Hope :

I just went through this hassle with an USB HP printer and
finally got itsorted out but don't quite understand how I
did it. I also have two printers in the printers and fax
window. One of the printers was called HP deskjet 990c and
the other one HP deskjet 990c series. The latter one was
using the HP drivers and the first one the Windows XP
drivers. As someone has already said, this one did not
have all of the bells and whistles of the printer. I
went to the printers and fax window and removed the second
printer by right clicking and deleting. I also went to
File | Server Properties | Drivers and removed it from
there. I would have thought that removing it from one place
should remove it from the other. Then, I turned off the
printer by the switch or by unplugging. I rebooted the
computer and it started without the new hardware found
notice. Then, I turned the computer on or plugged it back
in to start it and the found new hardware came up as it
should. I then went to the manufacturer and chose the
proper printer driver. There were 3 possibilities, to that
read the same and a third. The first one did not have
a green tick mark beside it which, I guess means that it
is not acceptable to XP. I picked the 2nd one that had the
green tick beside it and let the computer install the
driver. Ever since, things have worked as expected. One
other thing that was going on was that the printer started
slowing down a great deal. After I would hit the print
button in a program or from the internet, it would take
from 3 - 5 minutes before the printer started printing and
this was not what it used to do. It would always start to
printimmediately. Now everything seems to be back the way
it was and I forced arestore point immediately. I hope you
get yours whipped back into shape. It is annoying to have
those bubbles pop up all the time.

"Angelfood MacSpade"
wrote in message
...
Thanks Ramon. Since the Found New Hardware Wizard
doesn't give me the
opportunity to install from a CD (instead it copies files
automatically from somewhere), I did a manual install
using the Add
Hardware wizard in control panel and the WindowsXP CD.
All goes just
fine and I can print a test page using that printer
driver.

Then I turn the printer off and on again and guess what?
The Found New
Hardware Wizard rears its ugly head again and of course
can't install
the printer ("EpsonStylus Photo 750 - An error occurred
during the
installation of the device - The data is invalid").

So I now have two printer drivers installed for this
printer and
either one will work fine (one from Epson, one from the
Windows XP
CD). But nothing I can do will convince the Found New
Hardware Wizard
that the printer is already installed!


On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:12:33 -0600, "Ramon A. Vargas"
wrote:

Normally and this happened to me with a HP printer when
you run the setup
from the CD and install the printer, when you reboot
the computer Windows
Hardware Wizard tells you that it found a hardware,
even thought you just
got it configured correctly. To solve this problem just
put your Windows
XP
Cd and when the wizard comes out just browse to
D:\(whichever letter is
your
CD-Drive)I386. If that doesn't work then put your Epson
CD and browse via
the wizard to the Windows 2000/XP drivers.

Good Luck

Ramon Vargas

P.S.: Epson says:

Question: Should I use Epson's drivers or the drivers
provided from
Microsoft with the Windows XP software?

Answer: If you use the Epson Windows 2000 or Windows
2000/XP drivers from
the Epson Support web site you will receive all
functions and features
the
printer offer. If you use the Microsoft Windows XP
built-in driver, you
will
be able to print but you will not be able to use the
following functions:


a.. Ability to check your ink levels

b.. Ability to print at 2880dpi (if your printer
supports that
resolution)

c.. Advanced Color Management features

d.. Advanced Page Layout features like watermarks,
multi-page support,
or
doublesided printing (if your printer supports this
feature)


If these features are important to you or your printer
isn't
automatically
supported by Windows XP please download the latest
Windows 2000 or
Windows
2000/XP Driver from the Epson support website.

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"Angelfood MacSpade"
wrote in
message
news
Every single time I turn on my Epson Stylus 750 Photo
printer (USB),
XP's found new hardware wizard sees the printer and
tries to install
drivers for it. It copies a bunch of files and fails
with a "data is
invalid" message followed by a "there was a problem
installing the
device" message. I have successfully installed
Epson's own WIn2000
printer drivers and have no trouble printing other
than the damned
hardware wizard. (Epson didn't bother to make an
explicit XP printer
driver for the 750.)

I've tried everything I could think short of a clean
install of XP to
get the hardware wizard to actually install the
printer (at one time I
know that it did install this printer under XP but
that was a while
ago). I've even removed the Epson drivers but it
didn't help. Is there
any solution to this annoyance? Thanks.





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