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**olddfatbulldog** · September 28th, 06:04 PM

I just rebooted my computer because of a horrible virus. Everythings fine and I have all my old documents but my printer won't work. It's connected to the computer but when I press print, it says there's not a printer. Any help? Thanks!

***NYY*** · September 28th, 06:15 PM

go to control panel, add hardware
then it should prompt you to install drivers from a disk

or go to system-hardware-device manager
you should see your printer somewhere there. If you do, then click on it and update drivers. If that doesnt work, right click, uninstall, and just reinstall your printer software

**paintballwhiz14** · September 28th, 06:38 PM

yup that should do the trick, make sure to not unplug yyour printer while the computer is on.

labelskate · September 28th, 08:22 PM

Just reinstall the software for the printer. Your documents are probably gone for good though.

**olddfatbulldog** · September 28th, 08:29 PM

I have another disk that kept the documents. I only made that mistake once.

**pballman31** · September 28th, 08:33 PM

this is simple.....all you have to do is delete the folder called "Program Files"

that should fix the problem.

**bob005** · September 28th, 09:09 PM

^^^that's one way to be an assclown

but just uninstall all printer hardware and then reinstall it, that should do it.

**pballman31** · September 28th, 09:17 PM

^^^that's another

**PaintballRemix** · September 28th, 09:30 PM

pballman your a genuine nutbag. want to have the balls to post "^^^ that's another" after my post?

***MedicDVG*** · September 29th, 03:28 AM

If you are using widows XP -- go to your control panel, click on "printers and faxes" and then click on "add printer". If you have the driver on a disk, click have disk.. (if you don't have it, go to the manufacturere's website and download it to your desktop, then when you check 'have disk' hit the browse button and pick it off the desktop) or you can have XP search for it and see if it is on the XP install disk.

Let me know if you need more help -- hit me up on aim and I can walk you through it if you need more help.

Hope that helps.

BTW if you have a Mac.... Nevermind.. I know nothing of Macs

**Z PYRO** · September 29th, 03:34 AM

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Originally Posted by MedicDVG

BTW if you have a Mac....

God help you

**Uncle_T** · September 29th, 02:13 PM

also if you know the type of printer like a dekjet 720 or whatever you can go to the companies website and download the drivers you need

Rebel Yell · September 29th, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by zpyro

God help you

I've realized the same goes for Windows. If I knew how I'd install Linux, but I'd just screw my computer up.

**Shytkicker** · September 29th, 03:40 PM

If you can't find your driver at the manufacturer's website, you might also try http://www.driverguide.com .

The username is: driver2

The password is: all

Which is what they send everybody when they register. This will save you several pages of having to uncheck all the crap you don't want them to send you. *shrug* for what that's worth.

**L1nUx_r0ot** · September 29th, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Rebel Yell

I've realized the same goes for Windows. If I knew how I'd install Linux, but I'd just screw my computer up.

I've got a Linuxbox, it's not hard to install, just copy the .iso's to CDs and pop disc one in before you turn on the computer. Tada, installation.

**PaintballRemix** · September 29th, 05:56 PM

Linux isn't as easy to use though.

**L1nUx_r0ot** · September 29th, 06:00 PM

Yeah it is, you just have to step up from the PlaySchool GUI windows gives you and Learn to use GNOME or KDE as well as a command line. It also makes me feel nerdy-cool to say that I own a LinuxBox

**bob005** · September 29th, 06:54 PM

and if you suck at computers, but want linux, get lindows from linspire. sure, it isn't full blown ub3r 1337 l1nux, but yeah, it's much much much better than windows and mac.

**L1nUx_r0ot** · September 29th, 07:52 PM

just get any kind of linux and get Wine...