hp officejet t45 driver problems

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I hate to post to multiple newsgroups, so I'll apologize in advance. I
picked the NG's I thought this might apply to. I'm using Windows 2000 Pro
SP4 at home, set up workgroup.
I have a HP Officejet T45 printer. Windows 2000 drivers for this printer
are, well, not very well developed by HP. Installation went fine per HP's
instructions on installing them. However, now normal users cannot get to
their desktop. Make them an admin, they can. Make them a power user, they
cannot. Power users can log in, but the machine hangs as if "explorer"
didn't start (i.e. their desktop never appears). Periodically, it will
give an error like "you can't install drivers". Yet the drivers are
already installed.
Tried using regedt32 to give power users full access to all registry trees,
no go. It's not good for any user to use the web as admin, which is why
this is frustrating. Before this, power users could log in and get to
desktop.
I want to keep my machine set up in a half-way secure manner (for windows)
while allowing users to get to their desktops (i.e. me and my wife). I'll
be contacting HP about this, but I wanted your input on it as well.
Thanks in advance for any help you all can be.
 
We have many issues with security also. What I would do is
install this software on the pc giving the user an admin
profile. Once it is installed with that user's name,
change their profile to whatever you want it to be. It
should be good to go. If you have a network associated,
you might need have workstation only checked to install it.
 
Hi there,

I just changed my PIII833Mhz/386 for a PIV2,8Mhz/486. When trying to
reinstall the driver for my HP OfficeJet T45, there's no way to get it
done! I always get the messages "Service Pack 1 is a must"! Of course I've
got the SP4! And it was working very well under this same windows2000
Service Pack 4 last week!!
Anybody got a clue on how to solve this problem, when HP customers support
itself sends me to their own website and it is such a mess there that
there's no way to find a solution!!!

Thanks a lot in advance.
 
Nospeed said:
Hi there,

I just changed my PIII833Mhz/386 for a PIV2,8Mhz/486. When trying to
reinstall the driver for my HP OfficeJet T45, there's no way to get it
done! I always get the messages "Service Pack 1 is a must"! Of course I've
got the SP4! And it was working very well under this same windows2000
Service Pack 4 last week!!
Anybody got a clue on how to solve this problem, when HP customers support
itself sends me to their own website and it is such a mess there that
there's no way to find a solution!!!

Thanks a lot in advance.
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My guess is that some file that is required by the T45, and is a part of
SP1-4, is missing or damaged. This can be caused by another software
installation (even updates from Microsoft can cause this.) I suggest you
reinstall SP4 and try the printer again.
 
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