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[Jeff Siegel]

It (Windows) didn't like that approach (surprisingly).
One suggestion I had gotten was to try safe mode and, failing that, do some
registry hacking (turns out this is a known Windows issue).

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314452 

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
Behalf Of Paul Reinheimer
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 11:05 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] OT: 16 bit subsystem problem - printer driver
install

Have you tried telling windows to find a printer, then when asked
specifying the self extracted directory as the location of the
drivers?


paul


On 8/4/05, Jeff Siegel <jsiegel1 at optonline.net> wrote:
>  
> Wonder if anyone encountered this. I'm trying to install a printer driver
on
> WinXP Pro. The driver is in the form of a self-unzipping exe. Once
unzipped,
> it tries to run the setup procedure but an error message appears that
> mentions the inability to run a 16 bit subsystem. I've tried the
following: 
>   
> a) Running from a DOS prompt 
> b) Setting the "compatibility" properties for setup.exe. 
>   
> Needless to say (but of course...I'm saying it), nothing has worked. 
>   
> Is there something I'm overlooking? 
>   
> Jeff 
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