Computer woes. Still. :(

[jon_chaisson]

Okay, so on the offchance that it was the printer, I went out and bought a rather nice one on sale at Best Buy tonight, and went to install it, figuring that would update whatever went wrong...

aaaand, nope.

I can't install the printer.

Something got effed up on this PC, and I'm not sure what it is. According to random Microsoft sites and error messages that come up, it's either the Remote Procedure Call not working, a random .dll not working, or the spooler is all shot to hell.

*sigh*

I'm going to start this again tomorrow. I've wasted most of the day trying to figure out what the hell is wrong and not getting anywhere.



Of course, any suggestions, short of throwing said PC out the window, would be helpful.

Comments

[head58.livejournal.com]

Sadly, if the deep inner working of your print spooler are borked, reformatting/re-installing Windows may be the best/only solution.

I always look at Windows going south as just a reminder that I should be backing up my important stuff more often.

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

I'm in talks with HP at the moment to ask for their suggestions about this, so hopefully they can come up with something before I go that far.

There's also the fact that, like I said, everything else on Windows is acting completely fine, so that's why I'm thinking hoping I don't have to take that desperate of a step.

The annoying thing is that I don't think I have a reformat/reinstall disk, at least one I can find readily, if it comes to that. But at this point I'm not going to worry about it until I get back from vacation.

Of course, saving all my really important things like writing and random mp3s on the externals would probably be a good idea too. ;)