As far as the Vista not printing from an hp printer. I have found a couple
of things that might help. Preparing both machines for printing seems to be
very important.

On my XP desktop that has a DeskJet 5150 connected to it. After many days of
pulling my hair out. I deleted all files and programs that dealt with the
5150. Then downloaded the driver package(XP) and installed it on the
desktop.

On the Vista machine they had a small undelete program that removed files
that were still used in XP that were residing on my Vista laptop. All the
files I needed were at the HP web site

To install my wireless printer on the Vista laptop I did the following and
it worked great.

Open printers folder
Click add a new printer
Click add a local printer (yes I know it's on the XP machine)
On the next screen select "create a new port"
leave it local port select the next button
Then a box will pop-up for the port name

Name it like this: \\Name of Computer\name of printer

Once it approves of your port name it will allow you to install the Vista
printer drivers on the Vista machine

Vista must think we will never network a shared printer. Hope this helps
solve your printing problems

Have a great day...
Ron Atkinson

Hope this helps
solve your printing problems


Most certainly it solved mine. Youre tha man!! could I only have found this
5 hours earlier!

Regards MH

This also worked for me although I only needed to perform the last step of
adding the printer as a local printer on the Vista system. You have my
appreciation after I had tried a number of things for a couple of weeks.

I have one question. Does the choice of adding a "network" printer imply
that the printer is actually connected directly to the network and not
locally to any machine on the network?

Thanks,
Jerry

"Ron" wrote:

As far as the Vista not printing from an hp printer. I have found a couple
of things that might help. Preparing both machines for printing seems to be
very important.

On my XP desktop that has a DeskJet 5150 connected to it. After many days of
pulling my hair out. I deleted all files and programs that dealt with the
5150. Then downloaded the driver package(XP) and installed it on the
desktop.

On the Vista machine they had a small undelete program that removed files
that were still used in XP that were residing on my Vista laptop. All the
files I needed were at the HP web site

To install my wireless printer on the Vista laptop I did the following and
it worked great.

Open printers folder
Click add a new printer
Click add a local printer (yes I know it's on the XP machine)
On the next screen select "create a new port"
leave it local port select the next button
Then a box will pop-up for the port name

Name it like this: \\Name of Computer\name of printer

Once it approves of your port name it will allow you to install the Vista
printer drivers on the Vista machine

Vista must think we will never network a shared printer. Hope this helps
solve your printing problems

Have a great day...
Ron Atkinson