[OldDoggie]

I just received a new tower with Windows 7 Home Premium on a 64-bit system. I tried to download my old HP Deskhjet 932C, first with the original product disk and then the latest HP driver from the online updates. No luck with either. It tries to run a test print page, but nothing comes through. I tried the Windows 7 diagnostics and applied the 'fixes' offered, but it still won't run. Any suggestions for a fix on this?

[LiveBrianD]

Here: http://h10025.www1.h...=&product=61236
The original drivers that shipped on the CD it came with probably only support XP and earlier or something like that.

[mjd420nova]

This seems to keep happening again and again. Is M$ that bent on making you buy new peripherals to support their latest OS without making it compatible with previous OS. And then they won't provide the proper source code to the mfgrs so they can provide correct drivers. So many users roll back to XP when they know it worked before on even older platforms. I tend to leave them alone and let them share printers on the in house network. Three have XP PRO, one laptop and two desktops with AIO printers. Attempts by a laptop with vista and later Win7 can't even get a proper driver for a USB printer. Attempts to print over the net fails but the printer on a server will handle the task on BlueTooth. I have seen hundreds off users who upgraded from Vista toWIN7 and had to buy new scanners and printers afterwards. IMHO HP puts too much junk on your machine and adds up to seven processes when some options are taken. I have seen double the life with HP over any other one out there. Don't toss the old one yet.

This post has been edited by mjd420nova: 08 January 2012 - 07:14 PM

[LincolnSpector]

mjd420nova, on 08 January 2012 - 07:12 PM, said:

This seems to keep happening again and again. Is M$ that bent on making you buy new peripherals to support their latest OS without making it compatible with previous OS. And then they won't provide the proper source code to the mfgrs so they can provide correct drivers. So many users roll back to XP when they know it worked before on even older platforms. I tend to leave them alone and let them share printers on the in house network. Three have XP PRO, one laptop and two desktops with AIO printers. Attempts by a laptop with vista and later Win7 can't even get a proper driver for a USB printer. Attempts to print over the net fails but the printer on a server will handle the task on BlueTooth. I have seen hundreds off users who upgraded from Vista toWIN7 and had to buy new scanners and printers afterwards. IMHO HP puts too much junk on your machine and adds up to seven processes when some options are taken. I have seen double the life with HP over any other one out there. Don't toss the old one yet.

I don't think you can blame this one on Microsoft (despite the temptation we all have to do so). They get nothing out of forcing you to buy a new printer.

OTOH, HP does.

Lincoln

[brainout]

mjd420nova, on 08 January 2012 - 07:12 PM, said:

This seems to keep happening again and again. Is M$ that bent on making you buy new peripherals to support their latest OS without making it compatible with previous OS. And then they won't provide the proper source code to the mfgrs so they can provide correct drivers. So many users roll back to XP when they know it worked before on even older platforms. I tend to leave them alone and let them share printers on the in house network. Three have XP PRO, one laptop and two desktops with AIO printers. Attempts by a laptop with vista and later Win7 can't even get a proper driver for a USB printer. Attempts to print over the net fails but the printer on a server will handle the task on BlueTooth. I have seen hundreds off users who upgraded from Vista toWIN7 and had to buy new scanners and printers afterwards. IMHO HP puts too much junk on your machine and adds up to seven processes when some options are taken. I have seen double the life with HP over any other one out there. Don't toss the old one yet.

Agreed. That's why I'm staying on XP. The HP 4 and 5 and their 'plus' versions all sport PCL 5, and I've coded my DOS machines' documents, in that language. Can use a DOS window in XP, and no problems (well, the bugs are all worked out now). I shudder to think what upgrading to Win7 will do, so won't upgrade.

BUSINESS NEEDS CONTINUITY: we can't just up and re-invent the wheel each time, we have disparate systems to control, and so does any manufacturer, or website developer. Why MS just ignores the need of backwards-compatibility, is unfathomable. After 12 years of wrestling with Windows (I knew it but wouldn't use it until 2000, stayed instead on DOS) -- I'm done with them.

Good news is, the older stuff is still quite strong, works well, works on older machines that do last. So fine: then we all just change our strategy to the cheap end netbooks and notebooks for our email, once XP can no longer retrieve it. Which is actually a safer strategy too, for if you use but one little netbook for surfing, your confidential data is somewhere else, can't be hacked.