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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 08:17 +0000
Message-ID	<fei9kbF3s7pU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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ultred ragnusen wrote:

> It took about an hour for the Windows Update to finish

I have often wondered why the windows update method downloads drivers 
*so* slowly?

> How do I save the now-installed printer driver for future use now that it's
> installed on Windows 10?

The files required to remotely connect a driver from one machine to 
another should be under

C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\
aka \\hostname\print$

The added wrinkle is for variations between 64 and 32 bit machines 
(thankfully the old wrinkle of differences between intel/alpha/mips/ppc 
machines went away).

You should be able to make use of the remote install by sharing the 
printer via networking, then the other machine will work out which 
driver files it needs and copy them for itself

With a bit of detective work you can do it all manually, copying the 
files like for like, running regsvr32 on the DLLs, it's a long time 
since I had to stoop to doing it that way ...

Or you might find the relevant C:\Windows\INF\OEM*.?nf files
a manual process that involves hunting down any related files

Thread

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? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2018-02-14 08:06 -0600
    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 12:26 -0800
  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? Monty <monty@home.invalid> - 2018-02-17 11:53 +1100
    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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