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Windows: Nog meer info Skydrive koppelen als netwerkschijf

Geplaatst 24 april 2010
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Onderstaand artikel gaat nog iets dieper in hoe Microsoft Windows Live Skydrive (25 Gb online opslag! met een hotmail of live account) te koppelen is als een netwerkschijf dus gewoon met een letter te bereiken net als alle andere schijven.
Zie het eerdere artikel Windows: Koppel Skydrive als netwerkschijf in Windows:  http://clicko.wordpress.com/2010/04/03/koppel-skydrive-als-netwerkschijf-in-windows/

Origineel artikel: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/upload-sync-files-skydrive-windows-explorer/

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How To Upload & Sync Your Files To SkyDrive From Windows Explorer

by Jessica Cam Wong on Apr. 22nd, 2010

Windows Live Skydrive has been featured on MUO as one of the best services to come out of Microsoft for offering 25GB of online storage. Not only can you use it as a Picasa or Flickr alternative thanks to its integration with Windows Live Photos, but with a little preparation, you can also map it as a network drive (see SkyDrive in Windows Explorer) so you can use it as a file storing, syncing and sharing service.

SkyDrive could possibly even be a Dropbox alternative so you can sync files to SkyDrive. You can actually save yourself the work with either of the free Gladinet and SDExplorer tools, but this is another way to map SkyDrive using the downloadable Microsoft Office 2010 Beta or one open-source utility.
The 50MB file size limit still applies but most personal files and documents that you own don’t exceed that size, correct? However, if you have huge files, you might want to consider other storage services.

sync files to SkyDrive

So in order for you to see SkyDrive in Windows Explorer, you need to retrieve the unique location of each of your SkyDrive folders or Windows Live Photo albums which is generally something like https://abcdef.docs.live.net/yourcid/nameoffolder.

In that address, abcdef is actually a unique combination of six letters and numbers corresponding to your folder or album, while yourcid is the long ID code that appears in your URL bar after you log into SkyDrive. Nameoffolder corresponds to the name of your SkyDrive folder, of course.

So let’s go over how we can figure out the abcdef codes.

Retrieving The WebDAV Addresses Of Your SkyDrive Folders (Method 1)

This method is for users who already have downloaded Microsoft Office 2010 Beta; otherwise, jump to Method 2.

  1. Sign into SkyDrive.live.com in your web browser.
  2. Go to the Start menu, right-click on My Computer, and select Map Network Drive.
  3. Now open Microsoft Office 2010 Beta (either Word or Excel). At the top left of your document/spreadsheet, click on File > Share >Save to SkyDrive.

    4. sync files to SkyDrive

  4. Now sign in to see your SkyDrive folders. Choose one of your folders and hit Save As.

    5. sync files to SkyDrive

  5. In the Save As box that appears, click on the address bar to copy the address.

    6. sync files

  6. Now switch to the Map Network Drive dialog box that you opened in the first step, and paste the address in the Folder text box. After this, jump to the Accessing SkyDrive Folders From Windows Explorer section.

Retrieving The WebDAV Addresses Of Your SkyDrive Folders (Method 2)

This is for users who don’t have Microsoft Office 2010 Beta.

  1. Sign into SkyDrive.live.com in your web browser.
  2. Go to the Start menu and right-click on My Computer. Select Map Network Drive.
  3. Now, download the open-source utility, SkyDrive Simple Viewer, (requires Microsoft.NET 3.5 SP1) kindly offered in a 14KB zip file by a developer that discovered that files could be uploaded to SkyDrive via WebDAV. Download it here.
  4. Unzip the files and double-click on the SkyDriveSimpleViewer.exe.
  5. Enter your Windows Live ID username (e.g. name@live.com) and password. Click on Login to my SkyDrive.

    6. sync files

  6. Choose a folder and click on the WebDAV address to copy it.
  7. Switch back to the Map Network Drive dialog box that appeared after you completed step 1 and paste the address you just copied in the box titled Folder.

Accessing SkyDrive Folders From Windows Explorer

Now that you have pasted the address into the Folder text box in the Map Network Drive dialog box, delete the “https:” part of the address and change all the forward slashes (“/”) to backslashes (“\”). Your address should now look like this : \\abcdef.docs.live.net\yourcid\nameoffolder.

sync files

If you’re satisfied with the default drive letter (usually Y:) for your SkyDrive folder, check Reconnect at logon and click on Finish. Otherwise, choose another letter drive before you hit Finish. In a few moments, you should be greeted these:

skydrive file sync

Now, just sign in with your Windows Live ID (whole email) and password and you should see your SkyDrive folder as if it were another folder in Windows Explorer.

skydrive file sync

If you want to map your other SkyDrive folders, repeat the steps, making sure you copy the right and unique abcdef code of each of your SkyDrive folders. Also, when you type in nameoffolder, beware that ^2Public and ^2Documents may work instead of Public and Documents, so try those names if you have problems connecting. Names of photo albums should work the same as long as they don’t have any spaces or special characters in their names.

If you still can’t connect, try saving your file to a different SkyDrive folder in Microsoft Office 2010 Beta (if you used Method 1), copying that address instead and repeating the previous steps. If you used Method 2, try copying the WebDAV address of another SkyDrive folder in the SkyDrive Simple Viewer and repeating the previous steps.

Alternatively, try adding @SSL\DavWWWRoot\ to the pasted addresses in the Map Network Drive dialog box (e.g. \\abcdef.docs.live.net@SSL\DavWWWRoot\yourcid\nameoffolder).

Uploading Files To Your SkyDrive Folders

Now that you have your SkyDrive folders mapped in Windows Explorer, you’ll notice that it can be a little slow to even open the newly mapped folder. That’s because Windows Explorer is downloading files and folders to your location. Dragging and dropping files through Windows Explorer to your SkyDrive folders may also take a while or even choke Windows Explorer into showing you “(Not Responding)” since Windows Explorer is actually uploading each file to SkyDrive.

So if you have tried moving folders and Windows Explorer gets stuck, try copying files through the command prompt. Let’s say that you mapped your SkyDrive Documents folder in Windows Explorer using the drive letter T, and you want to copy the contents of your Documents folder in your PC to the SkyDrive Documents folder.

  • Copy the path of your non-SkyDrive Documents folder.

    • skydrive file sync

  • Press the Windows key and R at the same time to bring up the Run command.
  • Type cmd and in the command prompt that appears, type “cd “ (command to change directories) without the quotes. Don’t forget the space after cd.
  • Right-click on the title bar of the command prompt, select Edit > Paste. Press Enter.

  • Now that you are in the directory whose contents you want to copy, type “copy *.* T:\” without the quotes. This just says to copy everything inside this directory to “T:\”.
  • Wait till the command prompt shows you X file(s) copied.

After you have uploaded files to SkyDrive, map your SkyDrive folders in your other PCs and you’ll be able to sync files! Of course, you’ll see most changes reflected online at skydrive.live.com in seconds (deleting photos in Windows Explorer doesn’t seem to work because you can still see them on the website).

At the website, you can also download your files and share folders. Just upload them to your Public SkyDrive folder or edit the permissions for any other folder so that either a few people or the entire world can view your files. This is great if you want to share photos with family and friends because they don’t even need to sign in with a Windows Live ID. Just check Don’t require recipients to sign in with Windows Live ID when you’re on the Send a link page.

Right-Click On A File To Send To SkyDrive

In Windows Vista, the drive you mapped for a SkyDrive folder appears on the Send To menu after you right-click on a file, but if you don’t see it, press the Windows key and R at the same time to summon the Run command. Type in shell:sendto and in the box that appears, right-click on the white space > New > Shortcut.

Now click on the Browse… button to find the drive to which you mapped your SkyDrive folder. In my case, I chose T: for my SkyDrive Documents folder. Click OK.

Click Next. Name it something like SkyDrive Documents.

And there you go, right-click on any file and send to your SkyDrive Documents folder right in Windows Explorer!

Do you use Windows Live SkyDrive? If not, which storage services do you use?

Tip: Zet Aero AAN in Windows 7 zonder herstart

Geplaatst 4 april 2010
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Origineel artikel: http://www.computingunleashed.com/2009/12/how-to-turn-on-aero-in-windows-7-without-rebooting-or-logging-off.html

Om Aero in Windows 7 weer aan te zetten doe het volgende:
Start de Command Prompt met administrator rechten.

  • Klik op Start of druk de Windows-toets eenmaal in
  • Type cmd in het zoekvenster

In de zoekresultaten verschijnt de Command Prompt

  • Rechtsklik op het op het cmd-programma en selecteer “Run as administrator“

Command Prompt wordt opgestart

  • Type het commando: net stop uxms en druk op Enter.
  • Type het commando: net start uxms en druk op Enter

Aero staat nu aan.

Windows: Verwijder Windows Live Messenger volledig

Geplaatst 4 april 2010
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Origineel artikel: http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/27/completely-remove-windows-live-messenger-from-the-computer-system/

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Completely Remove Windows Live Messenger From The Computer System

There are situations where users are stuck with a version of Windows Live Messenger on their computer system that they cannot uninstall or update. This might have been caused by data corruption, a computer virus or other malicious software or the deletion of files or configuration entries. Manual removal is usually a solution but it requires lots of time with the danger of deleting data that is still needed on the system.

There are a few programs that can completely remove Windows Live Messenger from a computer system. These programs work in a similar fashion like the antivirus software removers that remove files and Registry entries from installed antivirus solutions from the computers system.

Here are the programs that can completely remove Windows Live Messenger:

Zap Messenger

zap messenger

Zap Messenger is a portable software program for the Windows operating system. It can not only uninstall Windows Live Messenger but also MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger 5.x. Zap Messenger requires the Microsoft .net Framework 2.0.

With all this in mind, I developed ZapMessenger – the one step tool to completely remove Windows Live Messenger, MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger 5.x. The first thing ZapMessenger will do is attempt to cleanly uninstall Messenger normally and if that fails for any reason, it will forcibly remove Messenger from the Windows Installer engine allowing you to reinstall at your leisure without hindrance.

Windows Live Messenger Uninstaller

wlm uninstaller

Windows Live Messenger Uninstaller is another software program to remove Windows Live Messenger from the computer system. The portable program supports Windows Live Messenger and MSN Messenger installations which it can uninstall from the system.

Windows Live Messenger Deep Clean

windows live messenger deep clean

The third program that can remove Windows Live Messenger is a tiny script which can be downloaded from Rapidshare. It will uninstall Windows Live Messenger and the Sign In Assistant including data and program folders, objects, contact store data, temp files and Registry keys.

Windows: Koppel Skydrive als netwerkschijf in Windows

Geplaatst 3 april 2010
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windows-live-skydrive

In onderstaande artikel wordt beschreven hoe Windows Live Skydrive (25 Gb online opslag! met een hotmail of live account) te koppelen is als een netwerkschijf dus gewoon met een letter te bereiken net als alle andere schijven.

Origineel artikel: http://www.nirmaltv.com/2010/02/02/how-to-map-skydrive-as-network-drive-in-windows/

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We have covered free tools like Skydrive Explorer and also Gladinet which can help you to access Windows Live Skydrive as a network drive. If you do not want to use a third party tool to access Windows Live Skydrive, you can still map it as a network drive and access any folder in Skydrive. For mapping Skydrive to Windows Explorer, we are using the SSL connection and for this we need the unique ID (WebDAV access) for connecting which can be obtained using a small portable tool.

1. First step is to get the WebDAV access address for your Skydrive account. For this there is a simple portable tool called SkyDrive Simple Viewer developed by Mike. Run the tool and login to your Skydrive and select the folder which you want to map.

WebDAV Address

In the image above, you can see an address corresponding to the folder I have selected. The address looks like this-

https://cdckda.docs.live.net/sdfsd24645759/Documents.

Here the sdfsd24645759 refers to the path which is the same as a personal sub domain when logging on to SkyDrive the normal way from your web browser. It can look like “http://cid-sdfsd24645759.skydrive.live.com/”. The sub domain cdckda refers to the your account and the folder you are trying to access.

2. Next step you need to make some modification to the URL.

The original URL- https://cdckda.docs.live.net/sdfsd24645759/Documents

Modified URL- \\cdckda.docs.live.net@SSL\sdfsd24645759\Documents

We are connecting using the SSL for Windows Live Skydrive.

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3. Open Windows Explorer, right click on the Network and select Map Network Drive.

Map Network Drive

4. In the Map Network Drive option, enter the folder as \\cdckda.docs.live.net@SSL\sdfsd24645759\Documents. You can also chose to reconnect at Login and if you want to connect using multiple account, check the second box as well.

Mapping Drive

5. It will prompt you to enter the Windows Live credentials after attempting to connect to Skydrive.

Login

Now the network drive will be connected and you can see the drive in Window Explorer.

Network Drive Mapped

Tip: Print vanuit Windows 7 naar op Mac gedeelde printer

Geplaatst 2 april 2010
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Originele artikel:  http://yourmacguy.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/print-from-win7-to-macosx/

Voor diegenen met Windows XP of Vista klik hier: http://clicko.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/tip-print-vanuit-windows-naar-op-mac-gedeelde-printer/

Voor diegenen met Windows 7 lees verder:

Let op: Bonjour Printing Services werkt – nog niet – goed op Windows 7, onderstaande tip werkt uitstekend. Verwijder op de Windows 7 machine vooraf de eventuele drivers van de printer en de-installeer Bonjour Printing Services mocht deze geïnstalleerd zijn.  Volg onderstaande handleiding; bij het kiezen van een PS (PostScript) printer op de Windows 7 machine selecteer bijvoorbeeld de HP Color LaserJet 2800 PS die standaard te installeren is. Mocht na het volgen van onderstaande handleiding nog niets uitgeprint worden kijk de firewall op de Mac na!

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Print from Windows 7 to a Mac Shared Printer

I recently upgraded my wife’s laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Home Premium. (The laptop manufacturer sent us a free upgrade coupon since we purchased it not too long before Windows 7 was released.) This morning she discovered that she can’t print to the Canon MP830 that is shared from the G5 Mac (running Mac OS X 10.5.8) in our living room. In Vista, I had it working via Bonjour. I’ve now learned a little too late that Bonjour doesn’t work in Windows 7. (see UPDATE) I googled for a solution, but all I was able to find was a bunch of other people complaining about the same thing: printing from Windows 7 to a printer shared from Mac OS X wasn’t working as it had been in Windows XP or Vista.

Print from Windows 7 to a Mac Shared Printer

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I recently upgraded my wife’s laptop from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Home Premium. (The laptop manufacturer sent us a free upgrade coupon since we purchased it not too long before Windows 7 was released.) This morning she discovered that she can’t print to the Canon MP830 that is shared from the G5 Mac (running Mac OS X 10.5.8) in our living room. In Vista, I had it working via Bonjour. I’ve now learned a little too late that Bonjour doesn’t work in Windows 7. (see UPDATE) I googled for a solution, but all I was able to find was a bunch of other people complaining about the same thing: printing from Windows 7 to a printer shared from Mac OS X wasn’t working as it had been in Windows XP or Vista.

Not to worry, though. After about 30 minutes of trying various solutions and just poking around in Windows 7, I found that the solution is pretty simple. The following procedure assumes you already have Printer Sharing enabled on your Mac.

I. Get your printer’s LPR Queue Name from CUPS admin

  1. On your Mac, open a browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:631 — the CUPS admin page.
  2. Click the Printers tab and look at the list of printers.
  3. If you’re using Snow Leopard, you’ll see a Queue Name column. Take note of the Queue Name for the printer you want to access from Windows 7. If you’re using Leopard or earlier, the Queue Name is the reddish link above a horizontal black line. (See pic below.) There are no spaces allowed in queue names, so if your printer shows up as Canon MP830 in the Print & Fax pref pane in System Preferences, the queue name will likely be Canon_MP830.

II. Enable LPR Port Monitor in Windows 7

  1. On your Windows 7 computer, go to your Control Panel and select the Programs item.
  2. Under the Programs and Features section, click Turn Windows features on or off.
  3. Expand the Print and Document Services item and then enable the LPR Port Monitor item.
  4. Click OK and wait for the change to be implemented. You should not need to reboot.

III. Add a new LPR printer

  1. Click the Start menu and select Devices and Printers.
  2. Click Add a printer in the toolbar.
  3. Select Add a local printer.
  4. Select Create a new port and then select LPR Port from the menu. Click Next.
  5. Type the name or IP address of your Mac in the first field and then enter the Queue Name you got in step I above in the second field. Click OK.
  6. The computer will attempt to verify the destination. If Printer Sharing is enabled on your Mac and you entered the info correctly, then you should not get any errors. If you see the following error, verify the settings on your Mac.
  7. You should now see the Install the print driver screen. Choose a postscript printer driver, regardless of the kind of printer you are connecting to. This is very important. You do not need to pick a matching driver for your device. The only consideration is whether to use a color driver or a b&w driver. (I’m using an HP Color LaserJet 3000 PS driver and it works well.) When you’ve selected a driver, click Next.
  8. Name your printer and click Next. The printer will now be installed.
  9. Select Do not share this printer and click Next.
  10. If you want this printer to be the default, check Set as default printer. Now click Print a test page.

Tip: Print vanuit Windows naar op Mac gedeelde printer

Geplaatst 2 april 2010
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Originele artikel:  http://www.proposedsolution.com/solutions/howto-print-to-your-macs-printer-from-windows/

Windows 7 gebruiker? Klik hier: http://clicko.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/tip-print-vanuit-windows-7-naar-op-mac-gedeelde-printer/

Geen Windows 7 maar Windows XP of Vista?  Lees dan door:

Let op: Bonjour Printing Services werkt – nog niet – goed op Windows 7, onderstaande tip werkt wel met Windows XP en waarschijnlijk ook Vista. Voor Mac OS X 10.5 en 10.6.

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HOWTO: Print To Your Mac’s Printer From Windows

Description

This article steps you through setting up a printer in Windows that’s connect directly to an Apple Mac on your local area network (LAN).

Symptoms

  • You attempt to add a shared printer that’s connected to a Mac on your network but cannot locate the printer when you browse the network
  • You want install a printer in Windows that you know is connected to a Mac on your network but don’t know where to start.

Explanation

Connecting to a network printer isn’t always straight forward in Windows and especially so if connecting to a shared printer that’s connected to a Mac. Not so, now that Apple have BonJour for Windows it’s quite simple. Solutions Below….

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Solutions

Solution 1 – Share the Mac Printer & Use BonJour for Windows!

This HOWTO is based on MAC OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Windows XP.

On the Mac

  1. Enable Sharing for the Printer
    • Applications > System Preferences > Sharing > Unlock (bottom left)
    • Place a check mark in the Printer Sharing box on the left pane
    • On the right pane, place a check mark in the printer you would like to share
    • Exit the Sharing screen and go to your Windows PC

On the PC

  1. If required, download the Windows printer driver from your printer manufacturers website. Windows may already have the driver installed.

    2. Get printer drivers from your manufacturers website Go to the printer manufacturers website and look for a link such as ‘Support’, ‘Drivers’ or ‘Software Downloads’. It’s the Windows driver you’re looking for! You’ll find direct links to the major printer manufacturers download areas in the links section of this site.

  2. Download & Install BonJour Printing Services for Windows from Apple’s website here:
  3. Launch BonJour Printer Wizard
    • After you have finished downloading & installing BonJour double click the BonJour Printer Wizard on your Windows desktop
    • Click Next on the Welcome to the BonJour Printer Wizard window
    • Select the printer that you shared in the ‘On the Mac’ section of this HOWTO and click Next
    • You must now either select the appropriate driver from the list or click the Have Disk.. button if you downloaded the driver from the manufacturers website as per step 1 above
    • After you have selected the correct driver, click Next..
    • Click Finish

Tip: printer drivers opruimen in Windows in registry en printspooler

Geplaatst 2 april 2010
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Origineel artikel: http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm

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Onderstaande tip werkt op alle versies van Windows 95 en hoger, ook Windows 7.  Let op de aparte sectie voor Lexmark-printers!

How to clean up printer drivers

If the Print Spooler service fails when printing, when Windows starts or it can not be restarted, the usual reason is that one or more printer drivers is defective.  If the Print Spooler service is not running, the Printers and Faxes folder will be empty and you can not use it to remove (or add) printers or printer drivers.  If you have a Lexmark printer, see special information about Lexmark printer drivers.

It’s important to only install printer drivers that are designed and built specifically for the Windows version you have.  This is particularly important for Windows XP; many of the CDs and floppy disks distributed with printers (particularly older models) do not have Windows XP drivers – check the printer manufacturer’s web site for printer drivers for the version of Windows you have (see Links).

A common cause of printer driver problems is to upgrade to Windows XP from Windows 95, 98 or ME without first removing the printer and the printer drivers.

The steps on this page will remove all printers and printer drivers from the computer.  The printing subsystem is then “clean” and ready for printers to be added using printer drivers specifically for the Windows version you have.

If you have drivers for several printer models installed (e.g. on a Print Server computer) it may only be necessary to remove the defective printer drivers.  At steps 2, and 7, just delete the entries for the printers or printer drivers you suspect are defective.  Unfortunately, the files that comprise the drivers are all in the same folder.  Also, the same files may be used by the drivers for several printer models.  So, selectively deleting the driver files at step 12 may be difficult or impossible.  With Windows 2000 and XP, in most cases, deleting the registry entries for the drivers (step 7) will be sufficient, so you may want to skip steps 10 through 12 if you have multiple printer models and don’t want to re-install all of them.

Check in Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs; if there is an entry relating to one of the printers, select it, then click Change/Remove.  Follow the dialog and “uninstall all” or “remove all” as appropriate.  Some “printer software” have programs that show up here and it will be a good idea to remove those before going any further.

If the Print Spooler service is operational:

  1. Open the Printers (Printers and Faxes on Windows XP) folder
  2. delete all of the printers
  3. click File, Server Properties
  4. select the Drivers tab
  5. for each entry:
    1. select the entry
    2. click Remove

Usually, this will do a pretty good job of cleaning out drivers with Windows 2000 and later (not so with Windows NT 4).

If the Print Spooler service is not operational, or you want to make certain there are no printer driver remnants, either follow the instructions below or use cleanspl.exe from the Windows 2000, XP or 2003 Resource Kit (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&DisplayLang=en).  cleanspl.exe from the Windows 2003 Resource Kit tools will work on Windows XP.

Some information about cleanspl.exe:

  • cleanspl.exe does a very thorough job of cleaning up the print spooler stuff, but it does not remove the spooler service dependency on the Lexmark service (see special information about Lexmark printer drivers).
  • You can use it to clean up the spooler stuff on another computer (i.e. remotely).
  • When you run it, it asks you if you want to remove some things that are actually delivered (and installed by default) with Windows.  In most cases, you should answer No to the corresponding prompts (you don’t want to remove the Standard TCP/IP Port or the BJ Language Monitor).

Here’s how to clean up the print spooler stuff if cleanspl.exe is not available or you prefer to do things manually.

Warning! be very careful using regedit – if you delete the wrong things, you may render your computer inoperative!

  1. open regedit (e.g. click Start, key regedit and press Enter)
  2. navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers

under this key, there will be the keys Version-2 and Version-3 (one or the other of these may be absent – not a problem)

the sub-keys under these contain the printer driver configuration information

delete all the sub-keys inside Version-2 and Version-3, but not these keys themselves

The Microsoft Knowledgebase article at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312052 lists some other registry entries to delete, but this is not usually necessary.

  1. open a Command Prompt window
  2. key the commands
    net stop spooler
    net start spooler
  3. open Windows Explorer
  4. navigate to %systemroot%\system32\spool\printers\ and delete any files there.  By default, this is where the print spooler stores print files.
  5. navigate to %systemroot%\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 (%systemroot% is usually Windows, but it might be winnt or something else; this is set when the OS is installed).
  6. inside w32x86, there will be folders with the names 2 and 3 (one or more of these may be absent – not a problem)
    delete all of the files and sub-folders in each of the 2 and 3 folders, but not the folders themselves
    inside w32x86, there may be other folders with names starting with “hewlett_packard”, “hphp” or something else; delete these folders also
  7. restart the print spooler (see steps 8 and 9 above)

At this point, the system should be pretty well back to the way it was before any printers were installed.

Some would suggest restarting Windows at this point, but with Windows 2000 and later, this does not seem to be required.

If you have a Lexmark printer, these additional steps may be necessary (thanks to Robert Orleth [MSFT] for providing this information).  The Lexmark printer installation process sometimes installs a service that makes the print spooler service dependent on itself.  If there is a problem with Lexmark service or a Lexmark printer driver (or you removed it using the steps above), the print spooler service may not start (see also http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324757).  The steps below make the print spooler service only dependent on the Remote Procedure Call (RPC) service (RPCSS), which is normal.  The print spooler service dependencies are stored in the registry at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Spooler\DependOnService

The sc config command at step 16 resets the value of that entry.

  1. Open a Command Prompt window
  2. key the command
    sc config spooler depend= RPCSS
    (note the space after the = but not before)
  3. restart the print spooler (see steps 8 and 9 above)
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