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by pattownsend 1 view

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I'm running Windows 2000 Professional with the latest SP and IE 5.5.
When I start IE the printer starts. If there is paper the printer feeds the paper through without printing. When the printer runs out of paper I get an error message. I cancel the print error. At this time NTVDM.exe starts and consumes 98% of the system resources. I can use the task manager to cancel NTVDM and everything works ok. This just started happening and I don't recall what change I made that may have triggered it. Any ideas?

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by curacao_dejavu

What software did you install the latest.
Check if there is nothing in the startup folder that could cause this.
After you cancelled the ntvdm, keep the taskmanger open (minimized) and while starting programs or processes watch when it starts at 98% again, so you will find the culprit.
Another approach is, if the problem is a service (control panel , services) you can disable the ones you do not need and restart the pc. (you may need to do this a couple of times till you find the one causingthis.

regards,

by pattownsend

I could not find any program or service that caused this problem. Regardless of what I ran or shutdown the printer started printing as soon as I started IE.
After a few days the problem disappeared as suddenly as it came.

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