![]() ![]() Turn off SNMP and that problem is resolved.įor \\server\printershare I have found if you remove spaces from the share name, that will resolve those printers from showing offline sometime later. At some point it loses communication and thinks it went offline. The reason SNMP is turned off is because on TCP/IP enabled printers in Windows 8, the printer will show offline unless you delete and recreate To turn SNMP back on, on the printer, to see if it will then show up and if so, see what happens when I remove it. You can still print to it from any app but you cannot select it as the default from Devices and Printers because it doesn't list. The only one that is NOT listed is one setup as a TCP/IP printer and that is because SNMP was turned off, is my guess. Restarting the print spooler, disabling/re-enablingīluetooth Support, restarting Devices and Printers, right-clicking and clicking refresh, pressing F5 for a refresh, logging out and logging back in, restarting the computer ALL have no effect but changing the view, does. I could then change it back to detail and they would still be listed. I changed it to large icons and the printers showed up. However, to get it to show up, change the view to some other view. It's also listed under Device Manager as a print queue. When you choose to print in an app, it's listed. If you tell it, it's not in the list and set it up manually using \\server\printshare then it may or may not show up. If it's in the list when you want to add a printer and select it, it will show up. My topic will be "The newest threats to your PC from the Internet.I found this depends on how you setup the printer. The group is open to the public and free to members and first-time guests. 16, in the San Francisco Community College District Office auditorium at 33 Gough Street (one-half block south of Market Street). I'll be the featured speaker this week at the San Francisco PC Users' Group meeting. Reader Terry Lechler will receive a free copy of Windows Me Secrets for being the first to send me a tip I printed. You no longer need to open Notepad first to tell it your preferences. On the context menu that appears, click Print. Once you've got Notepad's settings right, try this trick: Open Windows Explorer and right-click a text file. To see the commands that control these elements, run Help in Notepad, click the Index tab, then double-click Headers. Header information can be aligned left, aligned right, or centered, and so on. You can have Notepad automatically insert the date or time, for example. Now that your preferences will stay put, you can put a lot of handy things in your headers and footers. (Windows 2000's version of Notepad has another nice feature: You can set the default font from its Format menu, rather than hacking the Registry.) In Windows 2000, any new margin settings you defined will also be saved. In Windows, your header and footer values will still be the ones you set. Now restart Notepad and click File, Page Setup again. Write down the margin, header, and footer values, then change them. Click OK to save this value (as either a decimal or a hex value it doesn't matter). In the DWord edit box that appears, change the value 0 (zero) to 1 (one). In the right pane, double-click the word fSavePageSettings. Under the Microsoft branch, select the Notepad folder. In Registry Editor, double-click the folder icons to open the following branch: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft. In Windows 2000, click Start, Run, type "regedt32," and then click OK. In Windows 98 or Windows Me, click Start, Run, type "regedit," and then click OK. Close all copies of Notepad that are running. To make Notepad's Page Setup settings "sticky," take the following steps: ![]() Readers, take this as a challenge to find and send me even more. This proves there are still secrets to be extracted from Windows. But extensive queries in half a dozen Internet search engines reveal no mention of it in computer-user magazines. ![]() To my surprise, I've found that this hidden feature of Notepad has been present since at least Windows 98. Fortunately, the undocumented Notepad feature I'm about to show you is easy enough that you can implement it on any Windows system. (I like Editpad myself for information, see But you can't always count on a Notepad substitute being available on every Windows machine you use. Yes, I know there are much better text editors than Notepad. And you may want narrower margins so those 80-column lines don't wrap. You may wish to dispense with headers and footers or define your own. Now you can get some control over this kind of configuration problem. ![]()
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