A friend of mine has an old DOS application which can only print to LPT1,
LPT2 or LPT3. He purchased a new PC which only has USB ports. He obtained
a lead which allows windows applications to print to his printer and
after some suggestions from this newsgroup we managed to get ...

For some reason that i can not figure out, WinXP will not
permit me to add hardware or just plain add a printer.
When i click add printer it says "operation can not be
completed" The printer is usb, if that helps at all.

Running Win XP SP2 RC2 on a non-networked machine I recently had a problem
printing Word 2003 (MOS 2003) documents.  They printed erratically (with
great delay or not at all and error messages that Word had not been
configure for the printer)--when it had never had a problem ...

I'm using standard WinXP Pro fax utility to send the occasional fax through
my AOpen FM56-PX internal fax-modem.  (I have not yet developed a need to
upgrade to a more useful 3rd party fax system.)  Unfortunately, the quality
of the phone lines in my area is not the best, so to send ...

Ever since software was reloaded following a hard drive crash on my computer, I have found that when I select "print preferences" the next window pops up in French.  It's in English up to that point, then everying goes to French when print preferences are selected.  Any ideas on ...

My "Microsoft Shared Fax Driver" will not send a fax it says that "There is
no answer" as soon as a dial tone is gotten... It never attempts to dial the
number.  The no answer dialog appear in about 1 second after off hook.
Modem is a DSI   V.90 DI3635   (Broadxent)

I am trying to hook up a Canon S300 printer to a WinXP
Opsys.  I can not seem find a suitable driver either at MS
or at Canon.  Does anyone have a suggestion?

I have a COMPAQ Presario and it has the XP Home Edition
Pre installed. I want to install the fax capability but
is asking for the XP software. How can I install the fax
capability? Can I download from somewhere?

After sending a fax using native XP fax services, I
cannot launch Outlook 2003. I'm using a Dell A920 All in
One. Anyone else have this problem? Help to
lzwik@austin.rr.com would help. Thanks

I have connected the 2175 to Hawking usb print sever to my
network. But when installing the printer in XP Home there
is not a 2175 in the printer list. I phoned HP and they
said use the 970 and all I would be able to do is print

My deskjet 722C cannot print two-sided in XP but could
when I used WIN95.  HP  support was not very helpful -
says driver is XP and they have no upgrades - they blame
Windows. Have you heard of such a thing and is there

I don't know how to setup the printserver name..can
somebody help me ? Then how to make the printer available
to be shared with browser ? Thanks for your help.
Hidianto

I wanted to take a look at XP Fax for the first time.  
I'm just curious about having a cable modem.  Can it only
be used with a dial modem?  I would assume so since it
involves telephone transmission, but I was hoping that

How do I stop our network printers printing a separator
page? This was easily done with Win 95 & 98 through
printer properties, however XP doesn't have this. Progress
eh?! For the recorder our server is running Novell 3.12.

I have been doing work for a client and encountered a new
(to me) problem.  He had problems printing so I decided
to delete all existing printers and re-install only what
he needed.  One of the printers will not delete.  It's