Where do printer drivers live?

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Xeno Chauvin

Have an ancient printer on one machine with XP
and want to move it to another machine with XP
and I don't have an original driver disk so I want
to "copy" the driver from one machine to the other
but I can't find it in Win.
Xeno
 
Have an ancient printer on one machine with XP
and want to move it to another machine with XP
and I don't have an original driver disk so I want
to "copy" the driver from one machine to the other
but I can't find it in Win.
Xeno


Go to the printer website and download a driver from there.

Bruce
 
Xeno said:
Have an ancient printer on one machine with XP
and want to move it to another machine with XP
and I don't have an original driver disk so I want
to "copy" the driver from one machine to the other
but I can't find it in Win.
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You likely wouldn't be able to just "move it" anyway. It probably registers
in the registry, contains several (cryptically named) files spread
throughout your system.

Why not get the driver from the manufacturer web site? It's likely newer,
will function better and is certainly.. the only way to go.
 
Greetings --

Even if you could find all of the necessary files, just copying
them to the new hard drive wouldn't work; the drivers must be
installed. To do so requires either the original installation media,
or a fresh download from the printer manufacturer's web site, if the
drivers aren't already included in WinXP.

Bruce Chambers
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Unless the device is very old, the manufacturer will probably have it on
their website. Also, XP may have a driver for it. Have you tried installing
the device on the other machine?
 
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