HI All,
I have an old, trusty T410 that I'd like to keep in service for a while longer.
Running Windows 7, mainly for accounting.
It works fine except for the printer drivers. For some reason, every time I go to the control panel, and hit devices and printers, it just grinds and grinds and grinds. I show the little green bar going progressively further to the right (at the top of the page), but it never finishes.
Now I have installed printers just fine, it's just a pain to change the default printer when you can't really open your device and printer manager.
Any thoughts or suggestions (other than a complete reinstall of Windows?)
Thank you in advance!!!
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Re: Devices and Printers
Is your T410 still using a hard drive? If yes, I greatly recommend replacing it with an SSD and reinstall Windows.
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