Slow print job startup

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

WinXP Pro + SP2
Intel Celeron 2.6GHz + 500Mb ram + HP Deskjet840C

Over the last few weeks print jobs seem to take longer and longer to start,
perhaps 20seconds or more. These are one page text only jobs, no graphics.
It's a home build PC and completely new (4 months ago). Print jobs started
instantaneously in the beginning.

It's a business PC, so the only s/w is WP and such like. s/w is configured
to tell me when it updates like McAfee, Adobe reader, and XP. They all are
at their lates versions.

Any idea where to start looking?

Regards
Stephen Ford

 

[Byte]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

In the last 4 months, have you done a disk cleanup of your PC, such as
Temporary Internet Files including offline? Cleanup the Cookies files,
Begin here: Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup.
Then, open IE (Internet Explorer)>Tools>Internet Options>Delete,
etc...........
Finally, Defrag
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XP-WNP
Today is the first day of the
rest of your life.


"Stephen Ford" wrote:

> WinXP Pro + SP2
> Intel Celeron 2.6GHz + 500Mb ram + HP Deskjet840C
>
> Over the last few weeks print jobs seem to take longer and longer to start,
> perhaps 20seconds or more. These are one page text only jobs, no graphics.
> It's a home build PC and completely new (4 months ago). Print jobs started
> instantaneously in the beginning.
>
> It's a business PC, so the only s/w is WP and such like. s/w is configured
> to tell me when it updates like McAfee, Adobe reader, and XP. They all are
> at their lates versions.
>
> Any idea where to start looking?
>
> Regards
> Stephen Ford
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

It's the extra time that Word Perfect has to take to negotiate the XP
firewall.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging



"Stephen Ford" <stephen_ford_NOSPAM_@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> WinXP Pro + SP2
> Intel Celeron 2.6GHz + 500Mb ram + HP Deskjet840C
>
> Over the last few weeks print jobs seem to take longer and longer to
> start,
> perhaps 20seconds or more. These are one page text only jobs, no graphics.
> It's a home build PC and completely new (4 months ago). Print jobs started
> instantaneously in the beginning.
>
> It's a business PC, so the only s/w is WP and such like. s/w is configured
> to tell me when it updates like McAfee, Adobe reader, and XP. They all
> are
> at their lates versions.
>
> Any idea where to start looking?
>
> Regards
> Stephen Ford
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

> In the last 4 months, have you done a disk cleanup of your PC, such as
> Temporary Internet Files including offline? Cleanup the Cookies files,
> Begin here: Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup.
> Then, open IE (Internet Explorer)>Tools>Internet Options>Delete,
> etc...........
> Finally, Defrag

Good ideas. I will have a go and see what happens.

Stephen

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

> It's the extra time that Word Perfect has to take to negotiate the XP
> firewall.

Well, it was OK to start with, so why the change? I will try the cleanup and
defrag as our other friend suggests and report back.

Stephen

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

After cleaning up and a defrag, print jobs start a lot more quickly. The
printer responds instantly, even if with a graphics job, the job takes a ten
to twenty seconds to download. Text jobs start within seconds.

I hadn't thought that this would be the cause with a 2.6GHz processor and
75% free of a 30Gb system partition.

Thanks
Stephen Ford