Guest Fluchangle Posted September 5, 2008 Posted September 5, 2008 I have a PC running windows xp home. I no longer have a printer hooked up to it and have uninstalled all printers in the control panel. Every time I restart my PC it see's a new printer and prompts to install it. The install wizard can't find the software and I do not have a disc. Again, there are no printers hooked up to the PC
Guest Nightowl Posted September 5, 2008 Posted September 5, 2008 Re: PC see's phantom printer Fluchangle <Fluchangle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Fri, 5 Sep 2008: >I have a PC running windows xp home. I no longer have a printer hooked up to >it and have uninstalled all printers in the control panel. Every time I >restart my PC it see's a new printer and prompts to install it. The install >wizard can't find the software and I do not have a disc. Again, there are no >printers hooked up to the PC Hi Fluchangle Run MSConfig (Start | Run | msconfig) and click on the Startup tab. Have a look and see if there is any item there related to your late printer - - some utility program, maybe :-) which could be fooling Windows into thinking you still have it but have "lost" the driver. If you find such an entry, you can uncheck it to stop it from running in the future. It's better though to remove the startup entry -- msconfig will show you where to find it. If you're not confident about editing your registry, I recommend Mike Lin's free Startup Control Panel: http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml That will do the job for you. Hope this helps :-) -- Nightowl
Guest Fluchangle Posted September 5, 2008 Posted September 5, 2008 Re: PC see's phantom printer "Nightowl" wrote: > Fluchangle <Fluchangle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Fri, 5 Sep > 2008: > > >I have a PC running windows xp home. I no longer have a printer hooked up to > >it and have uninstalled all printers in the control panel. Every time I > >restart my PC it see's a new printer and prompts to install it. The install > >wizard can't find the software and I do not have a disc. Again, there are no > >printers hooked up to the PC > > Hi Fluchangle > > Run MSConfig (Start | Run | msconfig) and click on the Startup tab. Have > a look and see if there is any item there related to your late printer - > - some utility program, maybe :-) which could be fooling Windows into > thinking you still have it but have "lost" the driver. > > If you find such an entry, you can uncheck it to stop it from running in > the future. It's better though to remove the startup entry -- msconfig > will show you where to find it. If you're not confident about editing > your registry, I recommend Mike Lin's free Startup Control Panel: > http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml > That will do the job for you. > > Hope this helps :-) > -- > Nightowl > I did not see anything running related to the printer in the start up tab. Thank you anyway.
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