printer not showing in devices and printers

hiya

don't know when this occurred but everything used to work fine

Its HP 3050

only dvd and disc drives dhow

I have win 7 home premium do not have printmanagement .msc

Here is a couple of things to eliminate:

"Most likely the devices are appearing as a part of the computer or the parallel card in Devices and Printers.  Right click the computer or parallel card, if you have a Printer Properties menu item, that's the printer you are looking for.  If you have Ultimate or Pro use printmanagement.msc anytime you need to change something with local printers."

"Fixed mine after starting bluetooth services, credit goes to another forum"

From: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/printers-do-are-not-showing-up-in-devices-and/8544b881-6211-469a-9dd9-edef44dd5095

PS: What make is the printer?

Hi everybody,

I had this very same problem on my win10 system. The printer was installed and could print to it but it wouldn't show up in Device and Printers. The problem isn't with the print spooler but the solution is in services. The "Device Management Enrollment Services" was disabled. Once I enabled that service, set to manual, and started the service, the printer(s) appeared in Device and Printer. None of the "Device" services should should be disabled.

Hope this helps somebody.

Steve

only dvd and disc drives dhow

Are you saying Devices and Printers is empty?

Have look here: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/fix-devices-and-printers-completely-empty-windows-7/

Hiya Ron 

 does not show just keeps on searching nothing displays

Ron