Try turning off your VPN. That's what I had to finally do for my Brother drivers to be successfully downloaded.
My windows 11 will not let me download a printer driver. And does not have a choose where to get app in advanced settings
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I just purchased a new printer. I keep trying to download driver but windows will not let me open.
I youtubed several videos on how to fix or allow the driver to be downloaded but my computer does not even have the option available! so I do not know what to do.
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2025-04-16T13:38:54+00:00 -
Anonymous
2025-04-16T13:33:59+00:00 When I turned off my VPN from Norton, I was able to download my printer drivers.
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Anonymous
2025-04-16T07:20:34+00:00 I have recently purchased a Canon Pixma TS3660 wireless printer/scanner. I cannot add it to my laptop as a local wireless printer. I am operating Windows11 Home. Help! Its driving me mad
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Anonymous
2025-03-29T01:46:59+00:00 How about for Windows 10? That's what we have, and it blocks the Epson drivers for the scanner on our ET2840, so we can't scan to the computer. It prints really good, but how can we scan something to a folder on the PC?
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Anonymous
2025-02-20T21:25:22+00:00 Every driver that I tried to install would not install after it went through the download process. At the end it said it wouldn't work and here I am, up a creek without a paddle. Windows won't recognize my computer at all.....