BruceH;786787 Wrote:
I had this problem for a long time (almost a year I guess - gave up
eventaully). After a recent rebuild I did some more searching and found
a solution: did you by chance move the location of your FAVORITES
folder?

I moved the Favorites folder to my data drive. Apparently IE7 in
protected mode runs in a limited security mode and windows does not
automatically set the sharing security properly when this folder is
moved.
(Which is why the protected mode diable fix works)

I had to go to my Favorites folder. Right click on Properties then go
to the Security tab. Make sure that your user ID has full control
marked. (Mine did not when I checked).

As soon as I set myself for Full Control, IE7 started printing again
(on second attempt)

Hope this is helpfull to other.

Well, you might just have hit the nail on the head there Bruce! I
always "move" my favourites folder to a different partition and that
caused a problem with adding websites to my favourites once because it
was marked as Read Only.

But it had never caused any problems with blank or very slow print
previews until I did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit! *But after
installing Windows 7, I got all sorts of problems trying to print from
IE8*, the worst of which was when I sent pages to my Epson Printer, the
display would go black for a few seconds every time the print preview
opened! I tried all the fixes I could find, including uninstalling and
reinstalling my Nvidia drivers (two or three times!) but nothing cured
the problem. So as a workaround I unchecked Print Preview in my Epson
preferences and now I just use Windows print preview -before- I select
the printer instead.

But although Windows print preview opened OK, it would sometimes take
ages to display the document. But I just followed your advice - and the
print preview seems to come up MUCH quicker now! So thank you very much
indeed for the tip!


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