WIN 10 Update

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To get Win 10 itself to install a printer especially an old one, it’s necessary to have the printer turned off and USB cable unplugged, because as far as the O/S is concerned the printer does not exist, yet.

After at least 24 hours plug in the USB cable again and turn on the printer, your system should at first recognise the new Peripheral, but not necessarily do anything, it might even install a ghost Printer Icon and if does just deleted.

Allow the computer and printer to co-exist, then at a given time, sometimes days later the darn stupid O/S will pipe up and say found new hardware and install the printer properly.
I believe it’s called Plug and Play...:th
 

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Previously the printers all worked OK once I had removed the printer driver signature verification requirement, before all this update business.
OK. But what I've been asking is whether you use printer sharing and/or have a networked drive.

Glad to hear a Restore appears to have resolved issues.
 

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OK. But what I've been asking is whether you use printer sharing and/or have a networked drive.

Glad to hear a Restore appears to have resolved issues.

No I don't use either.

Haven't got rid of the blue rolling wheel. MS have a lot to answer for with WIN 10.
 
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To illustrate the variability of said Win 10 and the gargantuan job that always exists on hardware. I have updated 7 machines to the latest Win10. These machines range from the earliest Motherboards of AM2+ machines about 10+ years ago to machines up to date mini Celeron PCs and all updated perfectly fine with no issues. Yes, on the latest Win 10, unsigned drivers need to be reinstalled but that is easily done.
That I can update hardware over 10 years old should not be taken for granted. Try that with Apple and let's hear the story.
I think we need to cut MS some slack sometimes. It's not an easy undertaking.
 

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At last I have reset the cursor to the default arrow. The system resisted changes under the mouse options and retained the blue ring, until I hit the "none" in the options selection. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will not change it back later, as it did several times!
 

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@Emulator

What version of Windows did you restore to? I thought you were reverting back to Win 7 or 8.

One Windows 10 strange occurrence for me was it spontaneously resetting video/image extensions to use its own Microsoft applications instead of the third party applications I had associated those file types with. It took a couple to several association changes back to what I wanted for the settings to stick.
 

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@Emulator

What version of Windows did you restore to? I thought you were reverting back to Win 7 or 8.

One Windows 10 strange occurrence for me was it spontaneously resetting video/image extensions to use its own Microsoft applications instead of the third party applications I had associated those file types with. It took a couple to several association changes back to what I wanted for the settings to stick.

No, too late to reset to 7, just the last few updates of 10, which also took several changes back to what I wanted, for the settings to stick. 10 seems to have a mind of its own.
 

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No, too late to reset to 7, just the last few updates of 10, which also took several changes back to what I wanted, for the settings to stick. 10 seems to have a mind of its own.
I reckon a lot of guys are is just starting to realise that too...:hide
 
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