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USB PRINTERS and WINDOWS VISTA

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by jamnutt

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This is my THIRD printer this week, so far I have tried Lexmark, Canon and Epson. All three have come with a disk with "vista certified" drivers on. However after the problems with my first attempt (the lexmark) I decided to simply download the most recent drivers from each companies website.

When I have installed the new driver it asks me to connect to the computer. I do so but the installation program does not move on, instead it waits for 2 minutes then tells me to try again.

The computer is recognising the printer it beeps when I plug it in and asks me to install the software for it. In device manager it says there are no drivers installed for it. I can not find any advice that has helped me remedy this problem so far.

Please help!!

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by thechas

One possibility is that your user account permissions are to restricted. Or, something is blocking the pop-up action confirmation windows.

Check your user and security settings.

Chas

by pc-guru

vista has problems with all usb composite devices.
1st load the driver package
then go to device manager and click update driver then tell it you wanna browse and point it to C://windows and it will find the drivers...vista is retarded THIS WILL WORK trust me P.S you may have to do this 2-3 times

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