Vista - Lexmark t612

Being trying to install a lexmark t612, running vista, the printer is a
network printer, I know that vista has the drivers for this printer,
I've already installed it on another vista machine, and that went
without a problem, the problem comes from that this machine has adobe
install on it, so it will not give me the drivers for the printer,
instead it keeps giving me adobe instead, tryed to use the windows
update, but that gave me other drivers, and not for the t612, any idea
on how I can get around the adobe problem, I tryed uninstalling adobe
but that still left it's drivers behind. (talk about take over a
machine) help needed.


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Did you try to install it using the Add Printer Wizard and telling the
Wizard the TCP/IP address of the printer?

\\123.123.123.123 (as an example)
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"stormfire" <stormfire.2sqb3f@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> Being trying to install a lexmark t612, running vista, the printer is a
> network printer, I know that vista has the drivers for this printer,
> I've already installed it on another vista machine, and that went
> without a problem, the problem comes from that this machine has adobe
> install on it, so it will not give me the drivers for the printer,
> instead it keeps giving me adobe instead, tryed to use the windows
> update, but that gave me other drivers, and not for the t612, any idea
> on how I can get around the adobe problem, I tryed uninstalling adobe
> but that still left it's drivers behind. (talk about take over a
> machine) help needed.
>
>
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Problem solved, I did a bit of searching and found this.

*Here is the fix for the "Empty Printer List".

C:\windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 is most likely corrupt and should be deleted.
You will need to edit its file permissions to give Full Control to the
User Group before you will be allowed to delete it.

Credit to: Bob (of), Windows Vista Community, Hardware & Devices
*
I did not have the empty list but the file was corrupt. I deleted the
file and it installed.
if this forum has sticky's then this fix needs to be stickyed for
others with problems like this, most of the others I seen with this
problem seemed to be mostly hp printers.


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This is due to the vendor's setup install working around the XP issue
referenced in this KB.

"
Their installer has a hack to remove INFCACHE from system prior to install
in order to prevent the installation issue KB'ed in 830552. (since this
INFCACHE is often corrupted)"


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"stormfire" <stormfire.2ss07g@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> Problem solved, I did a bit of searching and found this.
>
> *Here is the fix for the "Empty Printer List".
>
> C:\windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 is most likely corrupt and should be deleted.
> You will need to edit its file permissions to give Full Control to the
> User Group before you will be allowed to delete it.
>
> Credit to: Bob (of), Windows Vista Community, Hardware & Devices
> *
> I did not have the empty list but the file was corrupt. I deleted the
> file and it installed.
> if this forum has sticky's then this fix needs to be stickyed for
> others with problems like this, most of the others I seen with this
> problem seemed to be mostly hp printers.
>
>
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