Parallel printing affected by security updates?

[Guest JohnT]

A few days ago I installed the following updates on my HP D530 running

Windows XP Home SP2: KB956803, KB956391, KB957095, KB956390-IE7, KB954211,

KB956841, KB958644. Today I found that the HP 932C parallel printer would

not work, as it had before the update. I verified that the printer worked

using my old 98 machine, and verified that the port worked using another

device. Uninstalling and reinstalling the driver had no effect. I found

that LPT1 was set to Never Use Interrupts. I thought this an odd setting for

background printing; I suppose it could use DMA, but that seems like

overkill. At any rate, I set it to Use Any Interrupt and printing started

working again. Has anyone else seen effects on LPT1 from any of the recent

updates?

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: Parallel printing affected by security updates?

 

Installing KB958644 may have played a role here.

 

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JohnT wrote:

> A few days ago I installed the following updates on my HP D530 running

> Windows XP Home SP2: KB956803, KB956391, KB957095, KB956390-IE7,

> KB954211,

> KB956841, KB958644. Today I found that the HP 932C parallel printer would

> not work, as it had before the update. I verified that the printer worked

> using my old 98 machine, and verified that the port worked using another

> device. Uninstalling and reinstalling the driver had no effect. I found

> that LPT1 was set to Never Use Interrupts. I thought this an odd setting

> for background printing; I suppose it could use DMA, but that seems like

> overkill. At any rate, I set it to Use Any Interrupt and printing started

> working again. Has anyone else seen effects on LPT1 from any of the

> recent

> updates?