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Old printer install

Dec 12, 2014 4:45PM PST

*May the following help someone*

I have an old HP PSC-1350 printer that provides all the services of an AIO setup. It never was made to work under Win7, XP was newest it suppported. But later had driver updates under the "windows update" to be Win 7 capable. At least it did under Win 7 Premium. It worked great and all. Now, i have a chance to upgrade my Win7 to Ultimate and did so. Starting fresh with a new install, it now no longer would install the PSC-1350. Now, that's normal it never was made for Win7. However, repeating what had been done roughly 18mos. prior, it would no longer complete or access all AIO features, only scan feature would install and only under the windows update. There is an overall HP AIO install s/w package that suppose to do this. It would install all the s/w but no drivers. It would find that there was a 1300 series device but never complete and in effect remains an incomplete install. Doing all online help/tips/HP info, etc., nothing made the install 100%. I even had the OEM supplied discs, different version releases and they even acted different but again no finished install. I don't know why it hung, so I resorted to the old trick, using the "windows.old" file of the past install to retrieve whatever drivers, etc. were required and it did the trick under the system32 folder.

adios -----Willy Happy

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