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The latest Windows 11 update is turning what should be a routine printing job into an unexpected art project. Imagine firing off a document and instead of the intended text, your printer starts spewing out random strings of characters and seemingly nonsensical data. This surreal behavior has...

If you’ve ever been frustrated by Windows 11’s inability to automatically install the ideal driver for your printer, there’s good news on the horizon. Microsoft Support outlines a straightforward method to manually install optional printer drivers via Windows Update. This guide not only breaks...

Printer troubles can be as frustrating as a paper jam on a busy day. Whether you’re using Windows 11, Windows 10, or an ARM-based device, keeping your printer driver up to date is essential for smooth performance. In our in-depth guide today, we break down the process as outlined by Microsoft...

As technology snakes its way deeper into our lives, we often find ourselves battling the occasional hiccup—like that dreaded moment when your printer goes silent. Not responding? Power outage? Hello, computer virus? Before you resign yourself to a life with no printed documents, let's discuss...

A common solution to various problems is to update the drivers. There are many third party programs that claim to do that. Virtually every one I have evaluated discovers that almost every driver on my computer is out of date. Often, the ones they find as replacements are either older or the...

I have a Lenovo T410. I had to reimage it (Windows 7) and before I did, it was doing wireless printing just fine (via a US Robotics router). After reinstalling Windows, I also reinstalled what I believed to be the correct drivers but now I can't get the printer to go wireless again. Documents...

I have been getting a BSOD every couple days. The error is a system_service_exception with stop code 3b. (STOP: 0x0000003b (0x00000000C0000005, 0xFFFFF9600010D010, 0XFFFFF88E011B40, 0x000000000000) To explain further, I have had this exact same error on TWO different computers, one of them...

Consider this scenario; You have a computer running Windows Vista or above You have a printer installed using a Version 3 or Version 4 XPS Printer Driver You open an XPS file in the XPS Viewer You print the file to the Printer using an XPS printer... Link Removed

I'm running Widows 7 64 Bit Pro. I go to the control panel and then I select Printers and devices. There are 3 printers in there that I have had. I got a new printer and I added the new printer and made it the default printer. Well there is still those other 2 printers that are gone now...

I have 2 questions, I am migrating an XP workgroup to 7. I have two new 7 machines, one sees all of the other computers on the network, the other one only see 1/2 of them. On the machine that only sees 1/2 of them, if i search with a Link Removed i can see them. Does anyone know why one...

When I try to print anything, my laptop says that the printer is offline when it isn't. When I try to "find printers" I get the error message: "The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable." This is a new Windows 7 Dell Inspiron. The CD that came with the HP Officejet J6450 did...

Link Removed You can put Doc’s name on the list of people glad to see Windows 7 finally hit streets and hard disks everywhere. I’ll leave it to those more pundity than I to assess the overall value of Windows 7, but I say that there are quite a few new print-management functions...

Just a few issues I've hit so far... utorrent downloads slow browsing to a crawl - Not sure if this is a utorrent thing or Win 7, but I don't remember having this prob with Vista. No printer drivers for Kodak Easyshare 5300 - Is there a such thing as generic printer drivers? Slow Photo...

Hi Mods . People seem to be having problems with sharing / networking printers all over the place so here's a general method that work 99% of the time to connect almost any mix of OS'es (Windows) and printers including "Network" printers -- perhaps you can make this a sticky. First part -...

Hi Guys, I have a small network set up at home with a belkin f5d8232-4 router, got a desktop that is connected to the internet via ethernet cable and a laptop that is connected via wireless, both using vista, and both Ihave installed the HP drivers, but with the laptop once it come to the part...

Hi, am having problems with loading drivers onto my computer. It's for a printer I had on a different computer using XP (HP Photosmart 1215). I've found that another type of printer driver is compatible (7200), and it's vista, but it won't let me download and install. Once downloaded I try to...