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printing issue in Win 98
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| Does anyone know or have seen in Windows 98, maybe others as well, where for whatever reason, the PC will loose its printers. Yet, when you reboot, they are back again? I have had many cases where this has happened, all of a suddent they cant print. I tell them to reboot and its fine again. Anyone know of a patch for this or solution? I have looked but been able to find nothing on it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. | |
| Tarzanboy 2003-10-16, 3:52 pm |
| I've seen it numerous times on several OSes. From what I can tell it is a case where something caused the print spooler to cease functioning. Since there is no means to restart it in Win98, you are forced to reboot.
Cheers,
TB | |
| azimuth40 2003-10-16, 4:21 pm |
| I see it also where I am on a network of 2K based systems with multiple IP based printers. The spooler disappear and a reboot brings them back. Normally it happens when a user is bouncing between printers or is printing to more than one at the same time. I suspect it is some kind of error and the OS kills the spoolers to recover. The normal message asks to reinstall the printers but they always come back with just a reboot. | |
| yanqui 2003-10-17, 3:39 pm |
| Lexmark told me (back when I had one of those) that sometimes the memory gets full and can't flush itself. At that point you can send stuff all day to the printer and it looks like it gets there but nothing happens. Certain applications plug it up worse than others, the most problematic for me was an online postage program. We have a color lexmark that is sort of a dinosaur, and it will flush its own buffer, but it still can't handle some documents all at once if they have complex formatting; have to send a page at a time, or it looks like they go to the printer, but nothing ever exits the machine.
(I really had to phrase carefully--you guys are such sewerbrains I had to make sure a discussion on printers didn't end up sexual--what's that say?) | |
| Tarzanboy 2003-10-17, 3:56 pm |
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Originally posted by yanqui
At that point you can stuff it all day and it looks like it gets there but nothing happens. Certain applications plug it up worse than others, the most problematic for me was an online program.
I heard pr0n sites have that effect. 
Cheers,
TB | |
| ANDRONDA 2003-10-17, 7:35 pm |
| I have found that Win 98 also likes to arbitrarily delete ODBC settings, which makes it real fun when the user cannot connect to a database. |
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