problem with winxp and printer

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GenerationYscorpio

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I have this problem, every time I start up or restart the computer, my winxp would ask me to install the driver for the printer, however, I have installed the driver already and its the same printer the whole entire time I have never plug-in another printer to my computer.

So, when I go ahead and let it do the installation of the printer driver, at the end it tells me it was not successful because of unknown port... I checked with the setting its fine, and I can print everything fine. Nothing wrong, but that found a new printer screen just keep poping up everytime I restart a computer.

Anyone can please help me or direct me how to solve this problem please.

One extra thing to add, I think all the problem started when I was trying to set my printer to share on my broadband router sharing device, but then later I make it not share with anything anymore. Maybe somewhere else I activated that I dunno and needs to be turned off.

 
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ojai00

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I had a similar problem on a XP Home computer. Make sure that you're installing the right driver. Sometimes, the XP driver will not work, so you might want to use the driver that came with your printer. If it did not come with a driver CD, I'm pretty sure you can download it from their website. That should get rid of the problem. When you're installing the printer, make sure you connect it to the parallel (or USB) port on your computer first. After you've installed it, then you can move it around (i.e. to a print server on a router, as in my situation) Hope this helps. :)
 
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GenerationYscorpio

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The original msg had been edited, and it might have been with sharing problem, that the machine is trying to locate the printer on server every time I restart the computer, dunno where I touched, but I dont want to share it anymore. See original post for complete detail thank you.
 
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