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How to make window XP printing message

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Is there anyway to make the printing message runs in background? The reason is that, when printing more than 30 pages of a document, the message just stay on screen, and my other things just stop responding until the print job finishes...anyone can help me with this?

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by ken g.

Two things come to mind here:

1. How much memory do you have?
2. What kind of printer?
3. What application are you printing from?

Most system lockups are a sign that your machine lacks sufficient memory to handle multiple tasks/requests. Either that or your print driver is corrupt and causing this to happen. Try reinstalling the printer and/or driver and see what effect that has.

As for the printing message there is usually an Options selection from within the print advisor window that would allow you to select a "Run Minimized" check box so that when you do print the advisor will only appear in the notification area as a small printer until the job is complete.

Many word processors are memory intensive; that is to say if they run long enough your RAM will deplete considerably and by stressing the system even further when asking it to print from a depleted system cache it simply cannot handle the job.

I would probably consider increasing your memory to alleviate this problem. Check these guys out (http://www.crucial.com). In the center of their home page they will offer to walk you through the steps to determining what memory is right for your computer and then offer you a line of RAM chips right for your computer. At that point you can buy memory right from them.

HTH :-)

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