I am having the same problem myself. Every time I boot
the PC, XP says it found a new printer which no matter
what I do, it can't install it.
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>>Interesting. What printer model is it claiming to
find ?
>How can you tell
>>it's a printer and not some other device class ?
>>Can you take a look at the %windir%\setupapi.log and
>post the last events
>>here ?
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>Sure. Here they are:
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>[2003/06/19 16:55:58 856.312 Driver Install]
>#-019 Searching for hardware ID(s): *pcouffin
>#-198 Command line processed: D:\WINNT\System32
>\svchost.exe -k netsvcs
>#I063 Selected driver installs from section
>[Pcouffin_DDI] in "d:\winnt\inf\oem31.inf".
>#I320 Class GUID of device remains: {FF646F80-8DEF-11D2-
>9449-00105A075F6B}.
>#I060 Set selected driver.
>#-124 Doing copy-only install of "ROOT\PCOUFFIN\0000".
>#E256 SetupCloseFileQueue called while queue is in use
>(locked).
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>I did nothing new when it appeared. I mean I turned on
>the comp (I didn't install any software or hardware
>before that boot) and I saw this massage. And since then
>(2-3 weaks ago) it happens every boot, as I already said.
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