Oh where oh where have my printers gone?

bry623 · Nov 24, 2004

In a 3 computer network, each station (1,2,3) has a printer hooked to it and shared (report,receipt,contract). The application we use normally freezes up when there is no printers. Today it froze and when I tried to open the printer folder, it took a long long time. There was only add pritner, no printers. I looked in my registry (HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE\System\current control set\control\print\printers) and all of my printers where there. A hard boot gets me past this, but the bosses don't want to keep doing that. Any ideas?

:win:

lincoln · Nov 25, 2004

Have you tried reinstalling the printers?

bry623 · Nov 26, 2004

Yes, I have but it doesn't help.

Azza · Dec 3, 2004

use a proper printer deleter program like kyocera printer deleter to completely remove the drivers, reg entries, orphans, oem files etc. then reinstall.
You will be supprised how much crap you will find.
Sounds like the registry is not quite right.

lincoln · Dec 6, 2004

You can also try deleting the drivers from the print server and reinstalling --

printers --> file --> server properties

and then on the drivers tab your installed printer drivers will be listed (this is Win2K, it will be slightly different for other versions of windows).

Try that and then reinstall and maybe that will help.

kelh · Dec 7, 2004

Have you checked the print spooler?

Oh where oh where have my printers gone?

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