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New Dell A10 Printer A940
My home office is running Windows ME and I use a Dell 9100
notebook for my other work office. I just purchased a new "Dell A10 Printer A940" and connected it to my home computer (which also has a wireless router for when I bring my work computer home). The printer connection is over a USB 2.0 port. My home computer (using Windows ME) tells me it cannot find a driver for the printer and the printer is giving me a message (displayed on my Windows ME monitor screen) that "Support for the Dell A10 Printer A940 in not provided for your operating system". What is wrong with Windows ME and how can I make my new printer work (properly) with it? Thanks for any help anyone can give me (and is anyone else getting angry with Microsoft for selling us a operating system that cannot keep up with the times)? Harry |
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New Dell A10 Printer A940
A quick glance at Dell's site
(http://www1.us.dell.com/content/prod..._printer2?c=us &cs=19&l=en&s=dhs - Find out if compatible with your operating system) would reveal the following: "The new Dell Personal All-in-One Printer A960, A940, A920, 922 and J740 Inkjet are compatible with systems that run Windows® 2000 or Windows XP operating systems only. If the system you plan to connect to these printers using operating systems such as, but not limited to: Windows NT, ME, 95, or, 98 the A940, A920 and J740 will not be compatible." you find confusing. Thanks for any help anyone can give me (and is anyone else getting angry with Microsoft for selling us a operating system that cannot keep up with the times)? No, and why should I? Out of curiosity why do you think Win Me should include drivers for a printer that wasn't available until some years after the operating system was released? Provision of drivers is the hardware manufacturer's responsibility. In this case Dell have chosen not to release drivers for Win Me or any other Win 9x system. If you are going to moan, moan at Dell not Microsoft. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Harry wrote: My home office is running Windows ME and I use a Dell 9100 notebook for my other work office. I just purchased a new "Dell A10 Printer A940" and connected it to my home computer (which also has a wireless router for when I bring my work computer home). The printer connection is over a USB 2.0 port. My home computer (using Windows ME) tells me it cannot find a driver for the printer and the printer is giving me a message (displayed on my Windows ME monitor screen) that "Support for the Dell A10 Printer A940 in not provided for your operating system". What is wrong with Windows ME and how can I make my new printer work (properly) with it? Thanks for any help anyone can give me (and is anyone else getting angry with Microsoft for selling us a operating system that cannot keep up with the times)? Harry |
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New Dell A10 Printer A940
Ooops - I guess you'r right. I don't know very much about=20
computers and I thought that it was an operating system=20 failure. I stand corrected! Now, I guess I'll "rave" at=20 Dell... Harry -----Original Message----- A quick glance at Dell's site (http://www1.us.dell.com/content/prod...tures.aspx/fea tured_printer2?c=3Dus &cs=3D19&l=3Den&s=3Ddhs - Find out if compatible with your=20 operating system) would reveal the following: "The new Dell Personal All-in-One Printer A960, A940,=20 A920, 922 and J740 Inkjet are compatible with systems that run Windows=AE =20 2000 or Windows XP operating systems only. If the system you plan to connect=20 to these printers using operating systems such as, but not limited to:=20 Windows NT, ME, 95, or, 98 the A940, A920 and J740 will not be compatible." you find confusing. Thanks for any help anyone can give me (and is anyone=20 else getting angry with Microsoft for selling us a operating system that cannot keep up with the times)? No, and why should I? Out of curiosity why do you think=20 Win Me should include drivers for a printer that wasn't available until some=20 years after the operating system was released? Provision of drivers is=20 the hardware manufacturer's responsibility. In this case Dell have=20 chosen not to release drivers for Win Me or any other Win 9x system. If you=20 are going to moan, moan at Dell not Microsoft. --=20 Mike Maltby MS-MVP Harry wrote: My home office is running Windows ME and I use a Dell=20 9100 notebook for my other work office. I just purchased a new "Dell A10 Printer A940" and connected it to my home computer (which also has a wireless router for when I bring my work computer home). The printer connection is over a USB 2.0 port. My home computer (using Windows=20 ME) tells me it cannot find a driver for the printer and the printer is giving me a message (displayed on my Windows=20 ME monitor screen) that "Support for the Dell A10 Printer A940 in not provided for your operating system". What=20 is wrong with Windows ME and how can I make my new printer work (properly) with it? Thanks for any help anyone can give me (and is anyone=20 else getting angry with Microsoft for selling us a operating system that cannot keep up with the times)? Harry . |
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New Dell A10 Printer A940
Harry,
Easily done. And when something doesn't work it's so easy to blame the operating system. :-) Increasingly you are going to find that both new hardware and software is only going to function where the operating system is either Windows 2000 SP3 or later or XP or later. For example Microsoft Office, recent Corel software and your new printer. Win 9x systems are in extended support and I feel it unlikely that many new products are going to be released that work equally well on a Win 9x system and an NT based system such as XP. -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Harry wrote: Ooops - I guess you'r right. I don't know very much about computers and I thought that it was an operating system failure. I stand corrected! Now, I guess I'll "rave" at Dell... |
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