Vista - Manually Changing Printer Drive on Network Pinter

I have a printer hooked up to an XP machine in another room. I am attempting
to access the printer from another computer with Vista x64.

Vista automatically installed the HP Photosmart 2500 series drivers (it is a
2510xi). Those drivers don't work with Vista x64. I need to install the
990c drivers on the Vista machine, but the advanced options in the
preferences (after running the prefs as Admin) are all ghosted so I can't
change the drivers.

Any help here?

Create a new printer that uses the 990c drivers pointing to the same port as
the 2500 and share this out for the x64 machine. This way the XP box uses
the 2500 driver and you don't have to change this around.

Or create a local printer on Vista and add a Local Port
\\XPmanchinename\printersharename for the printer

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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"TR" <TR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a printer hooked up to an XP machine in another room. I am
>attempting
> to access the printer from another computer with Vista x64.
>
> Vista automatically installed the HP Photosmart 2500 series drivers (it is
> a
> 2510xi). Those drivers don't work with Vista x64. I need to install the
> 990c drivers on the Vista machine, but the advanced options in the
> preferences (after running the prefs as Admin) are all ghosted so I can't
> change the drivers.
>
> Any help here?