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Printers in Control Panel not accessible

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by paulw

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I'm running Win98 SE on a clone PC P3 500 with 128 MB Ram. When I try to access "Printers" in the control panel the window comes up but, I'm unable to access the printers. It simply freezes on me until I close the applet with the 3 fingered salute. Scandisk also freezes up and cause a BSOD. What's up docs?

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by cajundon

Hi Paul,

Go to Systems in the Control Panel, Click on Device Manager, Click the + sign on Ports, highligh Printer Port (LPT1). and click remove, and then OK. Restart you computer and the drivers will be reinstalled.

If this does not reslove your problem, e-mail me, and I will see what else I can do to resolve your problem.

Good luck and have a great day.

Don Thibodaux, Independent Computer Technology Consultant.

by baziite

Your scandisk problem and the printer problem are quite unrelated . Try to recognize your key problem and try to solve that first . Do you have a printer attached to your computer or somebody elses ( print server ) . If you printer is on the networkthen Check if your orinter is accessible . If your printer is on your computer then delete the printer and reinstall it with the manufacturers CD , then Print a test page to check if it works fine .If not then Notice any error messages you get during installation eg cannot find LPT1 etc which can be solved by deleting it in device manager and restarting your computer . You will have to reanstall the printer after you install the LPT1 port .

Much Luck !!!

by chris hirst

I have found this is usually caused by a corrupt spool file in the printspool folder C:\windows\spool\printers delete any file in this folder (may be hidden) also check from a DOS Startup (not a command window) then reboot

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