I am desperately seeking help to resolve a printer problem that I have been
having since I installed Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate on May 18th. I
have spent several hours trying to resolve this issue and can't seem to find
a solution. I am hoping that someone on this group has a suggestion that I
didn't try / think about.

I have a home network setup with 2 desktop computers and 1 laptop. 1
computer is running Windows Vista Ultimate (desktop), the other computer is
running Vista Home Premium (desktop), the laptop is running Windows XP but
is hardly used (old and ready for the trash). The router on the network is a
DLINK DI-624 and we have two printers on the network. The one printer is a
HP 7210, which has a network built into it. The other printer is a HP 6L and
has a print server attached.

My problem is: The computer I use (Vista Ultimate) can't print to either
printer. When I do, it takes about 15-20 minutes to complete the job. It
prints, say, one or two lines -- pauses for a minute or two -- prints
another one or two lines and pauses. It loops like this until the job is
complete. If I cancel the job from the queue, it takes about 5 minutes to
cancel. If I print to the HP 6L -- it takes about 2 or 3 minutes for a 1
page Word Document to print.

The other computer (Vista Home Premium) has no isuses printing at all. It's
fast, images look good, etc...

If I take the printer off the network and plug it in via USB to the computer
running Ultimate -- there is no problem. Prints fast and clears the queue.

Things I have already tried without success:

1) Uninstalled the printer and reinstalled it.
2) Set the TCP Autotuninglevel to none via netsh
3) Verified Driver settings between the two computers and they match.
4) Checked Firewall / Router settings and all is correct. Disabled Firewall
completely as well.
5) Disabled UAC -- didn't work, installed UAC again.

We even downloaded NetMon 3.0 from Microsoft and the only thing we noticed
is when I print from the Ultimate computer to the HP 7210, I don't see a TCP
packet with the FIN flag set, indicating the end of the communication. When
I ran the NetMon 3.0 on the Home Premium Computer and send a document to the
printer, I see the TCP packet with the FIN flag being sent to and
acknowledged by the printer.

I even went to Microsoft for help and spent three hours in a chat session.
They had me delete my temporary files, the prefetch files, windows temp
directory was cleared. In the end, they couldn't figure it out.

The only other thing that sticks out is that the computer running Home
Premium when I try to browse folders on the Ultimate computer it is very
slow in copying (and some of the time freezes the Home Premium computer,
requiring a alt-ctrl-del and kill the session.



Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please post to the group so
that other people experiencing my issues can see your response as well.

Thank you,
Kevin

This issue has been resolved by Microsoft's Research Team. Turned out to be
my NIC card wasn't fully compatible with Vista. They changed the print stack
a little bit and my NIC didn't support it.

Went out to Bestbuy -- picked up a new card -- popped it in and printing has
been restored.

Thanks,
Kevin


"news.west.cox.net" <unknown.email.address@cox.net> wrote in message
news:wsI6i.53972$AR3.4914@newsfe07.phx...
>I am desperately seeking help to resolve a printer problem that I have been
>having since I installed Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate on May 18th. I
>have spent several hours trying to resolve this issue and can't seem to
>find a solution. I am hoping that someone on this group has a suggestion
>that I didn't try / think about.
>
> I have a home network setup with 2 desktop computers and 1 laptop. 1
> computer is running Windows Vista Ultimate (desktop), the other computer
> is running Vista Home Premium (desktop), the laptop is running Windows XP
> but is hardly used (old and ready for the trash). The router on the
> network is a DLINK DI-624 and we have two printers on the network. The one
> printer is a HP 7210, which has a network built into it. The other printer
> is a HP 6L and has a print server attached.
>
> My problem is: The computer I use (Vista Ultimate) can't print to either
> printer. When I do, it takes about 15-20 minutes to complete the job. It
> prints, say, one or two lines -- pauses for a minute or two -- prints
> another one or two lines and pauses. It loops like this until the job is
> complete. If I cancel the job from the queue, it takes about 5 minutes to
> cancel. If I print to the HP 6L -- it takes about 2 or 3 minutes for a 1
> page Word Document to print.
>
> The other computer (Vista Home Premium) has no isuses printing at all.
> It's fast, images look good, etc...
>
> If I take the printer off the network and plug it in via USB to the
> computer running Ultimate -- there is no problem. Prints fast and clears
> the queue.
>
> Things I have already tried without success:
>
> 1) Uninstalled the printer and reinstalled it.
> 2) Set the TCP Autotuninglevel to none via netsh
> 3) Verified Driver settings between the two computers and they match.
> 4) Checked Firewall / Router settings and all is correct. Disabled
> Firewall completely as well.
> 5) Disabled UAC -- didn't work, installed UAC again.
>
> We even downloaded NetMon 3.0 from Microsoft and the only thing we noticed
> is when I print from the Ultimate computer to the HP 7210, I don't see a
> TCP packet with the FIN flag set, indicating the end of the communication.
> When I ran the NetMon 3.0 on the Home Premium Computer and send a document
> to the printer, I see the TCP packet with the FIN flag being sent to and
> acknowledged by the printer.
>
> I even went to Microsoft for help and spent three hours in a chat session.
> They had me delete my temporary files, the prefetch files, windows temp
> directory was cleared. In the end, they couldn't figure it out.
>
> The only other thing that sticks out is that the computer running Home
> Premium when I try to browse folders on the Ultimate computer it is very
> slow in copying (and some of the time freezes the Home Premium computer,
> requiring a alt-ctrl-del and kill the session.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please post to the group so
> that other people experiencing my issues can see your response as well.
>
> Thank you,
> Kevin
>
>

Thanks for that update. This is news to me.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

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"Kevin" <unknown.email.address@cox.net> wrote in message
news:O9k%23k9loHHA.1244@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> This issue has been resolved by Microsoft's Research Team. Turned out to
> be my NIC card wasn't fully compatible with Vista. They changed the print
> stack a little bit and my NIC didn't support it.
>
> Went out to Bestbuy -- picked up a new card -- popped it in and printing
> has been restored.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin
>
>
> "news.west.cox.net" <unknown.email.address@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:wsI6i.53972$AR3.4914@newsfe07.phx...
>>I am desperately seeking help to resolve a printer problem that I have
>>been having since I installed Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate on May
>>18th. I have spent several hours trying to resolve this issue and can't
>>seem to find a solution. I am hoping that someone on this group has a
>>suggestion that I didn't try / think about.
>>
>> I have a home network setup with 2 desktop computers and 1 laptop. 1
>> computer is running Windows Vista Ultimate (desktop), the other computer
>> is running Vista Home Premium (desktop), the laptop is running Windows XP
>> but is hardly used (old and ready for the trash). The router on the
>> network is a DLINK DI-624 and we have two printers on the network. The
>> one printer is a HP 7210, which has a network built into it. The other
>> printer is a HP 6L and has a print server attached.
>>
>> My problem is: The computer I use (Vista Ultimate) can't print to either
>> printer. When I do, it takes about 15-20 minutes to complete the job. It
>> prints, say, one or two lines -- pauses for a minute or two -- prints
>> another one or two lines and pauses. It loops like this until the job is
>> complete. If I cancel the job from the queue, it takes about 5 minutes to
>> cancel. If I print to the HP 6L -- it takes about 2 or 3 minutes for a 1
>> page Word Document to print.
>>
>> The other computer (Vista Home Premium) has no isuses printing at all.
>> It's fast, images look good, etc...
>>
>> If I take the printer off the network and plug it in via USB to the
>> computer running Ultimate -- there is no problem. Prints fast and clears
>> the queue.
>>
>> Things I have already tried without success:
>>
>> 1) Uninstalled the printer and reinstalled it.
>> 2) Set the TCP Autotuninglevel to none via netsh
>> 3) Verified Driver settings between the two computers and they match.
>> 4) Checked Firewall / Router settings and all is correct. Disabled
>> Firewall completely as well.
>> 5) Disabled UAC -- didn't work, installed UAC again.
>>
>> We even downloaded NetMon 3.0 from Microsoft and the only thing we
>> noticed is when I print from the Ultimate computer to the HP 7210, I
>> don't see a TCP packet with the FIN flag set, indicating the end of the
>> communication. When I ran the NetMon 3.0 on the Home Premium Computer and
>> send a document to the printer, I see the TCP packet with the FIN flag
>> being sent to and acknowledged by the printer.
>>
>> I even went to Microsoft for help and spent three hours in a chat
>> session. They had me delete my temporary files, the prefetch files,
>> windows temp directory was cleared. In the end, they couldn't figure it
>> out.
>>
>> The only other thing that sticks out is that the computer running Home
>> Premium when I try to browse folders on the Ultimate computer it is very
>> slow in copying (and some of the time freezes the Home Premium computer,
>> requiring a alt-ctrl-del and kill the session.
>>
>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please post to the group so
>> that other people experiencing my issues can see your response as well.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>

In article <O9k#k9loHHA.1244@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, Kevin wrote:

> Turned out to be*my NIC card wasn't fully compatible with Vista.

Would you care to let us know what the incompatible with VISTA card was
and what the one that worked is? <s>