PC see's phantom printer

[Guest Fluchangle]

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]

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]

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.