Uninstalling a "phantom" printer

Win7HPx64. This may be of use when you need to uninstall a "phantom" printer. I used Canon Easy Photoprint on my old XPH desktop with a Pixma iP3000 inkjet until the machine died a few weeks ago. I have the original CD, but the program ...

Message posted on the September 2nd, 2012 - 11:34 AM ET

Missing Multimedia Audio Controller and Video Controller

I reformatted my computer yesterday, and now im missing my multimedia audio controller and video controller (VGA compatible) drivers. i seem to have lost my cd, and i was wondering if i could download the drivers off the internet. i'm not sure ...

Message posted on the April 25th, 2009 - 5:43 AM ET

XP Home SP3 installation failed

Hi, I have XP Home, and have SP2 installed, but now SP3 is failing, it is returning an error code of 0x80070005. I have posted the svcpack log below, if anyone can offer any suggestions as to what is happening I'd be appreciative. I have tried to ...

Message posted on the July 30th, 2009 - 2:29 PM ET

unable to print from word, excel, outlook 2007 or pdf files in vis

hardware: hp pavilion dv4-1430us entertainment notebook pc os: windows vista home premium sp2 system: 64-bit printer: hp photosmart 2610 all-in-one port: USB001 configuration: usb connected from laptop directly to printer when i try to print a word ...

Message posted on the December 8th, 2009 - 1:11 AM ET

spooler interruption on shared printer

With Win2000 and current updates, we have an HP-D1341 printer connected via USB that works fine locally, so it is now shared giving Full Control to everyone, and is visible on the network. The share is connected via Samba to the remote machine's ...

Message posted on the November 29th, 2009 - 12:33 PM ET

Lost log in cookies

HI, I was using IE 6 but was told to go to IE 7 to solve this problem but it has not. Towards the end of last week after a load of MS updates I suddenly found that I had to enter my log in details for all my sites like Yahoo, ebay and many forums. ...

Message posted on the June 13th, 2009 - 6:48 PM ET

local usb001