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April 2007 Entries

How to install a Vista x64 network printer...

I have an Epson printer on my Windows 2003 Server. I want to use that printer as a network printer on my x64 Vista PC. I attempt to add the network printer to my Vista and get this error: "The server for the 'EPSON Sytlus COLOR 880' printer does not have the correct printer driver installed...." The solution is to install the driver locally as the first step and connect to the remote network port as the second step. In my case, the Epson is an in-the-box driver. The actual printer does not have to be plugged into the local PC. Next, go into the new...

posted @ Sunday, April 29, 2007 4:51 PM | Feedback (0) |

How to shrink Vista partition

Well, I installed Vista Ultimate x64 on a new 500GB Sata drive and maybe I missed the option to partition it into multiple drives because it took over the whole drive. I wanted C:, D: and E: with C and D being 100GB for OS's and E the remainder for data. Vista's drive manager lets you shrink a volume but it did not shrink it as much as I wanted (only to the 1/2 way point) due to the file layout. Diskeeper defrag does not seem to move the files to the front of the drive which would have helped. Instead, I used...

posted @ Monday, April 23, 2007 10:51 AM | Feedback (0) |

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