OK. Just gave that a shot. Uninstalled EVERYTHING, rebooted and then reinstalled the drivers, and it seems to recognize the printer now when I connect the USB cable. I think something might've gotten hosed in the registry on the initial install.
Hmmmm.... That's a good point. I'm pretty sure that I had turned everything off prior to installation, but maybe not. I'll give that a shot.
Nope. No cd. Just downloaded the driver off of the HP website.
This is kind of a weird problem, and not sure what's going on. I was trying to connect my dad's new HP Officejet 6500 printer to his desktop. The driver installation gets to the step where you're supposed to turn on the printer and connect the USB cable. You do this, and nothing happens. My...
Cool. Thanks. Yeah, I did it and it works. For some reason, it only gives that other message if you want to delete the account by going to Control Panel->Users. The Computer Management way worked fine though. Thanks.
Cool. Yeah, it's XP Pro. I already ran through these steps to have the Administrator account show up:
1. Launch Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList in the Registry Editor.
3. Double-click...
Thanks for the tips. Yeah, my plan was to have the Administrator account for handling all the maintenance work, and then to have a User with limited rights for surfing, doing work, etc.
I just didn't want to have an Administrator, a User in the Administrative Group, and a User with limited...
When logging into XP Pro for the first time, you're prompted to create an Administrator account. However, this account seems to be an account in the Administrator Group, and NOT the 'Administrator' account, correct?
So after this initial setup, you now have 2 accounts. One is the...
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