On 2/22/2012 2:18 AM, Invisible wrote:
> OK, so my shiny new PC has /finally/ been set up in my bedroom, rather
> than on the kitchen table. That means that at last I can plug in all my
> stuff.
>
> Trying to set up my printer was necessarily difficult. You would /think/
> I could just go to the HP website and download the necessary driver
> software. And you would be wrong. HP insists "you do not need a driver
> for this device; Windows already has one". So I have to manually run the
> printer wizard, and hunt through a list of several thousand printers,
> only to confirm that no, my printer is /not/ in the list. So then I have
> to click the Windows Update button, and wait 35 minutes for Windows to
> download a complete list of every printer ever manufactured by any
> company rich enough to pay Microsoft to host their driver. And /then/ I
> have to hunt through an even bigger driver list to find my printer.
> (Even though Windows has successfully detected the make and model of the
> printer already.)
>
> ...or HP could have just given me the right ****ing driver. :-P
>
> On top of that, once I've managed to guess which "port" the printer is
> on, and configured it, now the printer shows up twice. The new printer I
> just configured shows up as working, but the original "unknown device"
> still shows up. In the end, I had to delete the printer I just created,
> unplug the USB cable, and plug it back in again. Because the
> corresponding driver is now installed, the printer is auto-configured.
> Sheesh! God knows how I'd have managed to get all that to work if I
> didn't know anything about computers...
>
Snort. Got a similar problem. The "scanner" software for something Win7 
detected shows two versions. One doesn't work, and the other crashes, 
but *only* when using the companies own on-scanner button configuration 
thing, which Windows couldn't auto-install. Using someone else's 
application, and picking the correctly installed "version" of the device 
lets me copy direct to printer, but only at low resolutions. I haven't 
bothered to even try to fix the problem... Bloody stupid OS.

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