Another recurring theme is the printer was plugged in before the drivers were installed.
Or a firewall/popup stopper is working (too well.)
Take some time to read other posts about this at:
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Bob
I'm running windows XP Home version 5.1 with service pack 1 pentium 4 1gb ram hyperthreading computer. Ihad my Lexmark X73 all in one printer installed, was workin alright for awile, then it just stopped working. Uninstalled-reinstalled several times, making sure to do a good uninstall each time. When I do the reinstall it all goes ok till the very end and it comes up with this error message at the end,There was a problem installing this device, An error occurredduring installation of the device, The RPC server is unavailable. I did some searching and did find some info on the same problem saying, that the spoolss.exe and spoolss.dll that are in windows\system32 folder may be missing or corrupt, I checked and I couldn't find the spoolss.exe file there,another site said that file is only on windows NT machines not XP Home edition, I replaced the spoolss.dll file with a another one from an XP machine so that one should be ok, I still get the message though when I reinstall the printer. It has to do with the RPC server I guess, I checked in Services under control panel and the RPC thins are turned on automatic, need help please
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