Missing Printers in Folder

[foxinphilly]

This is an intermittent problem. On occassion, users will print reports from a FPW 2.6a application and for some reason their windows printers will disappear. It is not confined to a particular report and all reports these users run are provided a 'PROMPT' command allowing them to select a printer. Rebooting the users machine always corrects the problem in that their printers return to the Windows printer folder. The users run Windows 98 as their desktop OS.

Is there something I can add to the code that will correct this problem or assist in my detecting the occurrance of this error?

 

[rgbean]

FPW gets the printer information from the WIN.INI file - remember it was written for Windows 3.x. (e.g.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;103645)

I found that while this technique worked most of the time, I'd always keep an extra copy of WIN.INI just in case the printer info got removed (it happens - especially in Win 95/Win 98!).

Rick