ChrisOlley

I've found a solution. You must uninstall the printer driver that was
downloaded automatically from the XP machine the printer is connected to.
Then download a new Vista driver for the printer on the Vista machine. On the
Vista machine choose to add a new printer, but make it a local printer. When
asked which port, create a new port. Give it the location of the printer i.e.
\\computername\\printername (if you can't work this out, choose to add a
network printer, browse for the printer you want, then copy the location when
you've found it. Then you can go back to add a local printer and paste the
location into the port name). I did this and all problems are cured. The word
processor runs fast and the printing is fast. Hope this helps.

"chris" wrote:

> i have the same problem, my network has 5 xp pc's wireless connected, and
> printing dialogue speed has always been ok, but now i have connected a vista
> machine and printing a page is hell, dialogues won't appear for about a
> minute and printing a page while adjusting the settings takes about forever.
> when i attach the printer to the vista machine, all goes well, locally and
> wireless with xp machines.
> i have already posted this but no reply came, maybe we'll just have to ask
> bill's boys about this, cause in my office environment this delay is
> unacceptable (sorry for spelling mistakes, i'm from belgium)
>
> "ChrisOlley" wrote:
>
> > I have a Dell AMD dual core 4200 with 2MB RAM running Vista Home premium. It
> > is connected to a wired windows home network setup with 4 PCs running windows
> > XP home. Generally the speed of the system e.g. internet is acceptable.
> > However, office software runs slowly. Notably I am running word 2002. While
> > editing quite small documents the system pauses, showing the waiting circle
> > for a couple of seconds before returning. Most notably, the print dialogue
> > takes 12 seconds before it appears. (The printers are attached to an XP Home
> > machine). I have installed openoffice2.2 and word 2003 and uninstalled (them
> > afterwards) and they all behave pretty much the same ie. generally slow and
> > very slow print dialogue.