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
    2024-02-19T18:23:27+00:00

    I got rid of the error by using:

    Go to "Printers & scanners", click on the default printer and click "Remove Device".

    Then, to get your desired printer, search for it again, and reset it as default if needed.

    That fixed my issue.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-19T21:36:30+00:00

    Thank you for your solution. For good measure, I restarted before adding my printer back in. It worked.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-19T23:29:05+00:00

    HALLELUJAH!!

    I have been SO frustrated for the last two weeks and followed what you did- and it worked like a charm! I can finally save things to a PDF for the first time in three weeks!!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-28T17:17:04+00:00

    removing all printers worked for me, and then adding back in the one printer i am currently using

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