New hard drive/ new operating system

[cdlake]

Good Morning, My son who uses this forum all of the time has installed a new hard drive 40 mg into my computer and then installed Windows XP. My old operating system was ME. My question is the my old ( 4years) Office Jet T45 all-in-one printer is not supported in this XP operating system.

Let me also say that it does not matter to me weather I use ME or XP, but he feels that this is a better operating system. Granted it is new but if I am unable to use my old All in one printer then what good is it. I have gone many times to the HP site to attempt to figure out why I can't get a "patch" to fix the errors. I am also unable to get my speakers to work with this system. The computer was built by Dell about 4 years ago if that helps any.

What should I do?
Thanks in advance for any help that you might provide.
cdlake

 

[nanaki333]

ME is the suck.

hp's site has your printer.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategory?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&tool=softwareCategory&product=60398

EDIT: didn't see the part about your speakers. check dell's website for your particular model to download proper sound card drivers. odds are, the soundcard was not properly installed.

 

[cdlake]

Thanks for your reply.
I have used that site before and this time I actually got farther ( it actually looked like it was installing the software) along than before. But there was still a problem.

it took me to this site:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?product=60398&lang=en&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&docname=bpu02510#P35_5876

Shoot I thought that I could work my way aroung this problem but I am just lost!!

Sorry, I have to ask another question "ME is the suck" Does that mean bad?

 

[tyanni]

Yes, that is what he means. I think nanaki333 sometimes forgets that not all of us are 16 year olds. What happens when you download the driver and run it?

 

[cdlake]

Sorry for the delay!
Nothing happens, It just comes back and states that it is not supported by 2000R. What ever that means, I thought that the downloads/patches were supposted to fix that.

At this point in time should I attempt to take the program off and not us the installation CD that came with it at all ? And just download from the site?