I have a Windows 7 machine downstairs connected to a USB HP Photosmart 7150 printer downstairs and an XP machine upstairs connected via a wireless router. Both PCs can browse each other's files, I can browse text files on the XP PC from the 7 PC and I can even watch Return of the Jedi ,which is located on the 7 PC, on the XP PC. Up until recently I was able to print on the HP printer from the XP PC, but it decided to act like a retard, and in my attempts to fix it I reinstalled the 7 machine's printer drivers from the XP site. Now, when I attempt to connect to the printer from the XP machine, I get an error message saying 'The server for the 'HP photosmart 7150 series' does not have the correct print driver installed. To search for the proper print driver click OK...' I click OK, it leads me to this weird little dialogue box where I'm supposed to look for an .inf file (The fuck is this shit, I have a fucking .exe file, I don't know where this inf file is located). I downloaded the XP drivers from the HP website, ran the setup, it asks me to connect the printer to the PC, [b]I CAN'T, IT'S ON THE OTHER PC[/b]. I right click on the printer, click connect when it gets to this stage, doesn't work, what the hell am I supposed to do? Where is this .inf file? How do I get this to work? I'm fucking at a loss, I've googled like fucking crazy, and there are no answers.
[b]OH COME ON.[/b] I just did EXACTLY THE SAME THING I WAS DOING (Right clicked on printer, clicked connect, clicked yes to the 2 dialogue boxes and [b]IT FUCKING WORKED[/b]. I mean, I should be pleased, but this is one of my main gripes with XP is that sometimes you get problems that make [b]NO GOD DAMN SENSE[/b] and you somehow fix them without knowing [B]WHAT THE HELL YOU JUST DID[/B].
So, never mind, it worked, 5 minutes of thread wriring wasted, lock this please.
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