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why does my computer loose my printers .

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by grice

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While using win 98 all prints like it should but when I try to print in excel the printers disappear and I have to reboot to get the printers back. I believe it is a spool 32 issue but am unsure how to correct the issue. After I reboot the printer will print again for a while and then I loose it again and have to rebopot again. I am on a network and use only windows 98 operating systems. I use office 97 word and excel.

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by dbesenho

i have seen this before on win9x networks. you didn't say if you were running novell client or not. in scenario where i saw it, problem was related to timeout settings in novell client for the network. increasing the timeout (how much time beforethe client disconnected due to inactivity) improved (but did not completely irradicate) the problem. i think in tcp/ip there is a comparible registry setting for ttl (time-to-live) -- check microsoft's website for specifics. no guarantees, but maybe that will help.

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