Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:
Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
HK wrote:
Mike wrote:
Vista is CRAP... pure and simple. I tested it in alpha and beta,
and when that was done, all of my computers went back to XP.

In my office, we have 7 computers on a peer to peer network...
all running XP except one that was replaced recently, and came
with Vista on it. That vista computer is CONSTANTLY having
problems accessing shares on the network, such as a printer at
another workstation. If you print during one of these episodes,
the thing runs like an old 286 for about 5 minutes until it
finally gives up, displaying an error message. Rebooting usually
cures it for a time. That system will get XP when I have some
time to do it.

--Mike


Sounds like you're the problem. I have no problems running any of
the printers here on my local VISTA network, which includes
machines running VISTA, XP and even Win2k. My wife's office is on
the third floor, where she runs XP and has a Brother laser
printer. I can easily print on that printer from my office, two
floors away, and she can easily print on my HP color laser printer.

There's always Network Magic if you can't figure out simple
Windows networking.

On Saturday, I installed a new printer on a friend's new Vista
laptop. It would never print the last page of her documents. I
thought it was a problem with her formating in Office, but it seems
to only want to print out all pages on a hit or miss basis. I
thought it might be a problem with the wireless, but did not have
the time to correct the problem. She has a contract with Geek Squad
and I told her to have them come over and sort it out.


I had no idea you were a VISTA geek, skilled in connecting printers
via wireless networks.

I am not, but have never had any problems connecting printers to
wireless or wired connections in the past.

If you really need to be a "Vista Geek" to install a printer, what
does it say about Vista?



That you have to read the directions. I haven't had any problems
connecting VISTA to hardware, but, then, I read the directions.

Did you run a windows printer test page when you were finished? Did it
print properly?

yes it did, but it was a one page colored document. If the printer was
set up to print the last page first, it would not print the first page.
If it was set up to run the first page first, it would not print the
last page.

I did a test running 4 pages, with only the number printed on each page.
All 4 pages ran. It might have been that her documents had the margins
set up outside of the accepted margins of Vista, but that has never
stopped a page from printing in other versions of Windows, the page just
may not have printed correctly. In WinXP, her document would print out
perfectly.






Sounds like a driver issue, not a Vista issue, or maybe a word processor
issue.