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Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use?

From	Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.sys.hp.hardware, alt.comp.periphs.printers
Subject	Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use?
Date	2018-02-14 21:54 +0000
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ultred ragnusen wrote:

> From that, do you think this is the directory to archive?
> C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\X64\3\

Looks like a winner

> I'm not familiar with "regsvr32" but a quick search shows it's a way to
> "register" DLLs using the command syntaqx:

Yes, some DLLs need to register themselves before they'll work

> That directory has almost a thousand items, only one of which starts with
> hp:
> - hpsamd.inf

They can be called OEMnnn.?n  where nnn is a sequential number, suggest 
you search for files containing HP or 2100 or whatever, it might be that 
printers don't put files in the INF folder (.inf files are text, the 
.pnf files are pre-compiled versions of the same thing, think you can 
ignore those).

> This HP inf text file is 202 lines long, where the header indicates it's
> related to HP in some manner.
>   ;Copyright (c) 2004-2011 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. ALL
> RIGHTS RESERVED.
>   ;HP Confidential.
>   [version]
>   Signature="$WINDOWS NT$"
>   etc.

if it doesn't hint at being laserjet related ignore it,

> I'm not sure what I would do with this file though.

your best bet to see if you have all the files you need, is copy them to 
a different machine, that doesn't already know about the the LJ2100, 
stop and start the spooler, and see if you go to change the driver for 
an other printer, does LJ2100 show up on the list?

It's a long time since I tweaked around with this stuff ...

p.s. another nym?

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How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? ultred ragnusen <ultred@ragnusen.com> - 2018-02-13 18:04 -0800
  Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-02-14 08:17 +0000
    Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? ultred ragnusen <ultred@ragnusen.com> - 2018-02-14 12:19 -0800
      Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2018-02-14 21:54 +0000
  Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? dg1261 <dgREMOVE-THIS1261@cs.com> - 2018-02-15 21:16 +0000
    Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? ultred ragnusen <ultred@ragnusen.com> - 2018-02-15 21:42 -0800
      Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? ultred ragnusen <ultred@ragnusen.com> - 2018-02-15 22:32 -0800
        Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? ultred ragnusen <ultred@ragnusen.com> - 2018-02-15 23:06 -0800
    Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? Zaidy036 <Zaidy036@isp.spam> - 2018-02-16 10:40 -0500
      Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? ultred ragnusen <ultred@ragnusen.com> - 2018-02-16 09:41 -0800
      Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? ultred ragnusen <ultred@ragnusen.com> - 2018-02-17 15:14 -0800
  Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? Mark <i@dontgetlotsofspamanymore.net> - 2018-03-23 16:18 +0000
    Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2018-03-23 10:35 -0700
      Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? Ragnusen  Ultred <rragnusen@ultred.com> - 2018-03-23 12:11 -0700
    Re: How do we save an old already installed HP printer driver on Windows 10 for future use? Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot.hassenpflug@asahinet.com> - 2018-03-26 10:19 +0900

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