Waiting for printer connection

Anonymous
2023-12-14T05:51:25+00:00

“Waiting for printer connection” pop up started coming up a couple of weeks ago and has been causing multiple issues.

Excel and Word randomly do not open, and then when I open the program again it tells me the file is already in use yet nothing is open. Task manager shows nothing open or running. I have to restart my computer each time to use the document or workbook and I sometimes I need to do this more than once before it will decide to randomly work.

I cannot print new documents or workbooks, it becomes unresponsive and then the program has to close. I can only print from saved documents, which o can’t always open!

MYOB cannot print now, I have to save as a pdf and then print. I know MYOB isn’t “Microsoft” but this only started when this pop up started. I have never experienced this issue before.

This is happening on all four computers and started at the exact same time.

I have tried turning off all network sharing connections and still no change.

This is really impacting my day to day operations ans these programs are all I use. It causing a significant loss of time.

Can someone please help?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-11-13T17:31:27+00:00

    Yes it solved the popup but wouldn't allow me to print basic word documents unless I changed them to pdf, so where is the great solution here?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-11-10T01:05:33+00:00

    This was the key for me.

    I was working in office this week using that printer.

    Now at home it keeps trying to establish connection to that printer.

    Step 1: Toggle off "Allow Windows to manage my default printer"

    Step 2: Click home printer and then "Set As default" on the top right (Wasn't available until i flipped the toggle in step 1)

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-24T08:34:43+00:00

    For me the solution was to make Microsoft PDF default. Delete printer. Add printer. Make default.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-17T13:25:41+00:00

    Yep, exactly my experience - solved it by:

    • "Let Windows manage my default printer" OFF
    • "Default printer" MICROSOFT PRINT TO PDF

    Thanks, for help.

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