Devices and Printers Dialog Box Empty

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When I open my "Devices and Printers" dialog box, it is empty; nothing shows up and the item listing says "0 items".

The devices and printers showed up in the Devices and Printers dialog box earlier, but now are gone from the dialog box. However, they are still in the system as everything seems to work. The problem comes with trying to set the preferences for any of the devices or printers since they can't be seen or accessed.

Anyone got any ideas of how to get the devices and printers to show up again?

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Devices and printers will show one device when you have configured multiple printers for the same device. There is a fly out menu to get to all the other printers on the device. Use the spooler teams UI, printmanagement.msc to view all local printers on Pro and Ultimate.

The old printers folder can be launched if you are running Home versions.

Open a command prompt and paste this in.

start shell:::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}\0::{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}

Alan Morris Windows Printing Team; Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/search/Default.aspx?adv=1

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I am having the same problem. I did a clean install from Vista and the computer has worked fine for weeks. Today, my devices and printer window is empty. I can still print from some applications, but Windows Live Mail gives me an error when I select print:

'an error has occurred in the script on this page'

line:291

char: 1

error: interface not registered

Code: 0

URL: res://ieframe.dll/preview.js

Do you want to continue running scripts on this page - Yes or No?

Barry

By the way, no new hardware has been installed recently.

I found another post that solved my problem. I was about to give up and re-install Windows 7, but tried this and it worked.

Go to: http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=artikel&cat=42&id=133&artlang=en

for the CMD file and explanation.

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2010-01-24T05:12:54+00:00

I am in the camp for which none of the solutions work. I have tried the ie8 registry updates, I tried the BT services stop/start/change to automatic, tried getting fresh drivers

Every time all my printers and BT devices work perfectly. They simply do no appear in Devices and Printers. I also tried turning my BT off and tried removing the drivers completely, no change.

Regards,

Jeff
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Anonymous

2010-01-25T10:52:04+00:00

I'm desperate trying to find a solution.

Please, can you tell me if you match some of my conditions here:

- P7P55 ASUS Motherboard

- XFX NVidia Video card

A proxy server and local IP.

Kaspersky Internet Security.

Thanks.

PM
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Anonymous

2010-01-25T21:26:11+00:00

I Paulo:

I have an Asus 1201N netbook and nvidia ION video, built-in of course. I am still with you and no solution. Have tried every single solution previously presented about BT and IE8. User "Peddler" above did a clean install and did not get it to load, so I am not going to try that painful step.

This is crazy since I first loaded W7 RC on 3 machines in the summer and never had any issues. I can't believe the release is less stable than the candidate.

Please keep me posted if you solve it and I will do the same.

Regards,

Jeff
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