What a pearl harbour ! My old pc and printer setup is prolly only used twice a year, once for designing the calendar and once for printing my tax return. This year I knew my printer wouldn't work as last year it only printed in pink, all the inkjets blocked up through lack of use. Sooooo, clever me was one step ahead this year and I bought a brand spanking new mono laser printer. Ordered yesterday and arrived this morning. Woohoo !
Disconnected the old printer then fired up the old pc, deleted all the Epson proggys then rebooted. Took ages to boot up and then kept locking up for 30 seconds then working for a minute and repeat. Great ! Not. Spent a good couple of hours trying to sort the pc out but it refused to play ball, didn't even try installing the new printer. Gave up after a good kick didn't sort it.
No problem, I'll just install it on my lappy. Yeah right. Printer fired up and ready, lappy turned on and ready I put the driver CD in and started installing the drivers. FAIL ! Hmmmm, wonder what caused that ? 3 hrs later after multiple installs and deletes I realised I didn't have the print spool working. Couldn't find the printer spool on Windows 7 despite using a google method of Windows + R then type blablablaaa. It's in Administrator, services. Can't find Administrator section ! Eventually found it hidden away, clicked on printer spool function and suddenly remembered I'd disabled it many years ago. Clicked to auto and then easily installed my printer drivers. Printed off my annual 4 pages in about 10 seconds. Quick eh.