Windows XP and printers

[Stilicho]

Hi all:

I have an old Compaq P2 laptop with Windows XP. It was a mistake because it became quite slower.

I am thinking into "upgrading" it to Windows 2000

Now I need to buy a very compact printer such as HP deskjet 340 or similar.

The question is. Windows XP can handle any kind of printer or older printers are likely to have problems if the drivers are not for this kind of OS ?

Any link to a place where I can read something about it ?

All the best

Stilicho

[-pops-]

You can find out about that printer here but it seems to be a discontinued model.

You might be better looking for a more recent one.

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

I don't think that there are any printers sold today without XP drivers. There may be new printers that have no Windows 2000 support, but XP will probably be supported for quite a while longer.

If you think of buying an older (used) printer, you can check file ntprint.inf (in C:\WINDOWS\inf) if Windows itself has support for that printer.

P.S. I just checked: HP Deskjet 340 has built-in drivers in Windows XP.

[Stilicho]

I don't think that there are any printers sold today without XP drivers. There may be new printers that have no Windows 2000 support, but XP will probably be supported for quite a while longer.

If you think of buying an older (used) printer, you can check file ntprint.inf (in C:\WINDOWS\inf) if Windows itself has support for that printer.

P.S. I just checked: HP Deskjet 340 has built-in drivers in Windows XP.

Hi

Thanks guys

I want to buy a used printer. The modern compact ones I cannot afford them at the moment so I was trying to avoid buying something that I could not use.

I have the Norton System Works 2000 which I badly need and its exactly the same thing, cannot be used with the XP and there is no support or even rebate to upgrade the product... They want me to buy a completely new program and I am not in the mood

All the best

Stilicho

[-pops-]

There is little or nothing that Norton can do which cannot be done by free software.

[Irene]

There is little or nothing that Norton can do which cannot be done by free software.

I totally agree with pops. :)

[Stilicho]

There is little or nothing that Norton can do which cannot be done by free software.

Hi Pops & Irene

I am going to tell the story behind Norton System Works:

I am an old chap that started working in computers in 1980 with mainframes a lot bigger then myself. Then came along the Apple II, the Apple Lisa and then the IBM PC.

Needless to say that a mainframe that three years later costed the same as two three bedroom condos went to the scrapyard because nobody wanted it. When I tried to move to the micro world I found out that the DOS was simply not for me. I was going nuts with the horrors of the DOS. I was left without mainframes and unwilling to get to the micros because of those "horrors".

One day I was passing behind a series of computers and saw something that cought my attention and I had never seen it before. It was a kind of a "pop down" of a series of comands, or a "window" as we today call it. I came back and asked the guy how he had done that...

It was not Windows yet but what I saw was the first "graphic" interface for DOS. It was a software called "PC Tools" from an American company named Central Point Software.

That was magic. I bought the software and in a week I was making everything a PC can do with no hassle and NO DOS.

I never stopped using that software and bought one version after the other until the Version 7. After this they came up with the last one the 7.V for Windows (3.1) So I "grew up" with that software and simply cannot live without.

Later Norton (not yet Symantec) bought the software and they came up with the Norton System Tools that is mainly the original PC Tools the best software of the time to promote the use of PC's and the first to have the concept of popdown windows that a lot of people think it was a Microsoft invention.

About free software that do the same, I know nothing about it. I need to check all the PC and the software errors, registry and everything that NST checks. The problem is the scarcity of funds available -:)

All the best

Stilicho