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by chester peterson

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I have a canon printer connected to a PIII 733 256mb, 20gb Win ME.
sometimes when I print the computer freezes and i have to restart especially when printing work from the internet.
Please help.

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by thechas

Start by updating the driver from Canon.

Next, make sure that you have sufficient free space on your hard drive for printer spooling files, and windows Swap file.
I would want at least 2GB of free space.

Clean out your temporary internet files, and your windows\temp folder.

Boot into safe mode, or shut down all tray and back ground programs, and run scandisk and defrag.

If you have a parallel port printer, make sure that the port is set to ECP/EPP mode.
You can either look at the details of the printer port in device manager, or enter BIOS setup durring the boot process to verify the port mode.

Chas

by pierrejamme

In addition to TheChas's response, don't try to leave the page you are printing until the IExplorer printer Icon on the bottonm bar changes to the Windows Printer Icon in the Task Bar. This will lock you up every time.

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