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mrdunglesmith   10-25-2009 at 09:05:32 PM

My printer is a HP Officejet Pro L7590, the driver for this is supplied by Microsoft when installing Windows 7 64bit. HP does not have drivers to install on their website for this printer. When going through the options to share a printer on Windows 7 64bit, it has a check mark for x86 sharing but you need to install a .inf x86 for your specific printer. How can I accomplish this? Where are Microsoft's drivers located on Windows 7? Does windows 7 64bit store x86 inf files?

I really need to get this network printer up and running. Any help is greatly appreciated!

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have you tired using the vista 64-bit drivers from HP. Most of the time it should be fine. How are you finding the printers on the other machines. I suggest using...

Run>"name of windows 7 computer">(then it will show the shared devices)right click on the printer>connect

This should do it for you.

Post back with your findings
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digitalvivo   10-26-2009 at 08:06:53 AM
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have you tired using the vista 64-bit drivers from HP. Most of the time it should be fine. How are you finding the printers on the other machines. I suggest using...

Run>"name of windows 7 computer">(then it will show the shared devices)right click on the printer>connect

This should do it for you.

Post back with your findings

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mrdunglesmith   10-27-2009 at 04:21:59 AM

:bounce: Everything works fine. The drivers given by Windows 7 64 bit worked when I "added a printer" in Windows XP 32 bit (I just connected to the printer server "\\Windows7machinename\HPprintername" ) . I had never tried that out this time around. It seemed like such a simple thing to do. I guess I was scared that the HP printer sharing tool made it sound as if the 64bit drivers were not going to work when installed on the 32 bit XP system.

Thank god that worked, because I could not find a .inf file from HP's Vista 32bit installation that was compatible with the HP printer.

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