Printers won't stay installed

I have a windows 98 machine that everytime I reboot the computer or if it is
just sitting there for an extended period of time the printers will become
magically uninstalled. Most times it is both of sometimes it is only one of
them. Has anyone ever seen something like this?

My printer won't print. Unless it's just out of ink, I'm not quite
qualified to be in a printer thread. STILL, when it was printing, it
never did anything like that. So...

(1) What do you mean by "uninstalled"?
(2) Can it be you are on a Network & sharing some other computer's
printer?


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"rick" wrote in message
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| I have a windows 98 machine that everytime I reboot the computer or if
it is
| just sitting there for an extended period of time the printers will
become
| magically uninstalled. Most times it is both of sometimes it is only
one of
| them. Has anyone ever seen something like this?

By uninstalled I mean that when you go to control panel and printers there is
nothing there. When I go and reinstall the printers they work fine but after
awhile or reboot the printers won't be there anymore. Thanks

"PCR" wrote:

My printer won't print. Unless it's just out of ink, I'm not quite
qualified to be in a printer thread. STILL, when it was printing, it
never did anything like that. So...

(1) What do you mean by "uninstalled"?
(2) Can it be you are on a Network & sharing some other computer's
printer?


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"rick" wrote in message
...
| I have a windows 98 machine that everytime I reboot the computer or if
it is
| just sitting there for an extended period of time the printers will
become
| magically uninstalled. Most times it is both of sometimes it is only
one of
| them. Has anyone ever seen something like this?

Well, you are sure you're not on a Network? What shows at... "Control
Panel, Network, File & Print Sharing button" on the computer you are
connected to, then?

Also, on your computer...

"START button, Run, RegEdit", & navigate to...

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Exp
lorer

That is,
(a) Click plus signs, beginning at "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" & ending with
"Policies".
(b) Click "Explorer" in the left pane, & look in the right pane.
(c) R-Clk "NoSetFolders", if there, in the R-pane, & select "Modify".
(d) Change it to zeroes: 00 00 00 00.
(R-Arrow to left of "01", use delete key, type "00".)
(e) Exit, & it may be necessary to reboot.

WARNING: Do not get carried away in the Registry. It is very important
to the proper functioning of Windows. Muss it badly, & you must boot to
DOS & "Scanreg /Restore". Then, choose the date of the last successful
boot from the five offered.

The rest of this is just informational...

......Start of Other things that may be done there.......
Right-click the right pane and select New, Binary Value, & name it:

NoClose To disable Shut Down.
NoFavoritesMenu To remove Favorites.
NoFileMenu To remove the File Menu in Explorer.
NoFind To remove Find.
NoLogOff To remove Log Off.
NoRecentDocsHistory To disable the Documents compilation process.
NoRecentDocsMenu To remove Documents.
NoRun To remove Run.
NoSaveSettings To prevent some few settings getting saved to the
Registry.
NoSetFolders To disable Control Panel and Printer folders.
NoTrayContextMenu To disable Taskbar context menu.
NoViewContextMenu To disable (all?) context menus.

Double-click the new entry, select modify, and add this value: 01 00 00
00.
To reverse the action, change the value to: 00 00 00 00
.......End of Other things that may be done there.......

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q130234
Save Settings On Exit Option Enabled by Default
....Quote.............
....snip...
Setting the NoSaveSettings field to 1 prevents your settings from being
saved. When you set this value, the following items are not saved when
you exit Windows:

Changed icon positions on the desktop.
Windows that are open when you exit.
The size and position of the taskbar.
....End quote.......


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"rick" wrote in message
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| By uninstalled I mean that when you go to control panel and printers
there is
| nothing there. When I go and reinstall the printers they work fine
but after
| awhile or reboot the printers won't be there anymore. Thanks
|
| "PCR" wrote:
|
| My printer won't print. Unless it's just out of ink, I'm not quite
| qualified to be in a printer thread. STILL, when it was printing, it
| never did anything like that. So...
|
| (1) What do you mean by "uninstalled"?
| (2) Can it be you are on a Network & sharing some other computer's
| printer?
|
|
| --
| Thanks or Good Luck,
| There may be humor in this post, and,
| Naturally, you will not sue,
| should things get worse after this,
| PCR
|
| "rick" wrote in message
| ...
| | I have a windows 98 machine that everytime I reboot the computer
or if
| it is
| | just sitting there for an extended period of time the printers
will
| become
| | magically uninstalled. Most times it is both of sometimes it is
only
| one of
| | them. Has anyone ever seen something like this?
|
|
|