printers

Symptom: Shutting down, shutdown screen would start then hang and required me to hard power off. Solution: I had uninstalled the Windows Fax and Scan option in the Turn Windows Features On/Off from the Programs and Features section of the Control Panel. When I did that, it did not uninstall...

Hello! I work in a small office of about 5 people. We have 2 computers running Windows 7 and 3 computers running Windows Vista. The problem I am having is that the windows 7 computers are able to see and use the printers and files on the vista machines, however the Vista machines are NOT...

Hello, I'm running an HP 2600n printer. It works fine via USB, but I'm having problems setting it up for my home network. I have another computer running XP, whereas my main one is Win 7 Home Premium. Both computers are running fine on the Internet. When I select devices and printers, I right...

Hi everyone! this is my first post here and i hope I didn't miss any similar topic - i've used search and the results didn't answer my question...Here is The Issue: I have 2 laptops connected to a home wirelles network... one comp is running win 7 and the other win XP. Both laptops have...

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum and I did a quick search to see if anyone else asked this but came up with nothing. Here it goes... My home network is nearly entirely Mac based (with the exception of a few printers and back up drives). At one point I was able to see my Windows 7 machine on...

I plugged in my external HDD , it installed and is showing in the devices and printers.....but is not not seen in My Computers.please help me resolve this problem.....I need to use my HDD.

I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed on an HP laptop. It was an upgrade from Vista Home Premium. I have just encountered a problem that I have not seen before. This occurred when printing from one of the map programs (happened with both Google maps and Mapquest). When I print directions and...

Setting share files and printers seems to not be as easy as it was in XP and Vista. I tried all the forums so far and have not found the trick. With all options tried in Windows 7 as the forums state, one can not see the other non Windows 7 pc in a home that worked fine prior to Win7 with same...

Our church presently has a peer-to-peer network of 12 PC's, all running XP (mixture of Home and PRO), and 3 networked printers. One of the PC's (XP PRO) is used as a "server" and contains a database accessed by the other workstations. Also, this PC is a collection point for backups of "My...

I found the real answer to the windows 7 additional printer driver problem for network sharing. It is in the name windows 7 names the printer. The INF file has it listed as a different name, there for it does not see it as a driver for your printer. You can change this in the INF file to match...

So i wasted my money upgrading 3 computers to 7 for my business. SO when i went to install 3 of my printers, it wouldnt or couldnt locate the driver folder which i had downloaded from the manufacturers website. So now my complaint is that Windows 7 doesnt allow you to Browse and manually point...

Hi, i am currently using windows 7 home premium 64bit I had a wireless lexmark printer (Z4290) and i removed it because of having issues, however now i seem to have two ghost printers, (Printer and Printer (copy 1)). i keep removing them but whenever i refresh the device and printers list...

When I add a printer, the printer is not visible in the window 'Printers'. The window is hanging on the 'green' status bar at the top. How can I solve that? This is wat I see: Link Removed due to 404 Error

There is a PROBLEM with the ADOBE, NVIDIA, OPENGL, WINDOWS7 driver. If you open a gray scale picture in Windows7 Photoshop, it will appear to be purple. I tried GeForce drivers 182, 185, 190, and MicroSoft Win7 reference drivers. I have also tried color profiles, sRGB, AdobeRGB 1998, Acer...

I am using Windows 7 (Build 7600) x64. Is there a way to get Scheduled Tasks and Printers and Faxes to appear when I am browsing remote Server 2003 machines on the network? -j

I was adding a new bluetooth device to my computer, when I restarted, now when I click on devices and printers, I get a blank page, the green progress bar slowly crosses the address bar all the way across then just sits there, and the page is blank. The network page is also blank. This has...

Minor Nuisance (Devices and Printers icons) Hi all. Nice to be in the forum. Hopefully you can help me with my issue. It’s extremely minor but I’m curious to see how this part of Windows 7 works (seems quirky to say the least). I’ve installed Windows 7 a few times now on...

Ok, so I used the W7 Bata, RC and now I've installed W7 Ultimate. In the previous two versions, I was able to install and run my local and networked printers. I've now installed W7 Ult and my printers install without any issues, they just don't print. I don't get an error. The print job...

Ok here is my situation. 3 PC's all running Windows 7 Ultimate 1 Desktop connection via wire to router 2 Laptops connected via Wireless (Linksys wrg54g) All 3 PC's are visible on all 3 PC's via the Homegroup in Windows Explorer. I can browse/copy/write files on all 3. All sweet. All 3...

I have been having a problem with my home network crashing when using WIndows 7. For some reason, whenever I tried to access shared folders or computers on my home network, windows 7 would show "limited connectivity" and I would lose my internet connection. The crazy thing, is that Windows 7...