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Ugh! Did Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer kiss Carly to get HP to use .NET ???
This is a needless complcation and explains why HP printer software installs
often get screwed up !!!! ... Ben Myers
On 27 Feb 2005 12:38:06 -0800, gbs@netbox.com wrote:
>This is not the solution. I have done this a half dozen times and the
>problem keeps coming back.
>
>I think the problem is somehow related to a problem with .NET. My .NET
>Connection Service cannot start because it cannot find the executable
>in the path. It just a hunch that, becaue HP seems to use .NET very
>heavily, and, because, .NET can seem to be working while it is having
>esoteric problems, that this problem lies there.
>
>Greg Silverman
>Menlo Park, CA
>
>
>dmansure wrote:
>> I finally fixed it. I had the same error for a long time.
>Frustrating,
>> isn't it!
>>
>> I was online with HP support for hours.
>>
>> It boils down to this. At some point, somewhere, somehow, all of you
>> either deleted or uninstalled some printing or imaging software
>components
>> from HP.
>>
>> If you have any CD's of recently installed printer software, like I
>did,
>> insert the DVD/CD when prompted to install the TrayApp. Then,
>navigate to
>> the folder on the disk called, "TrayApp", in there you will find a
>.msi
>> installer called, "TrayApp".
>>
>> Click on that, hit OK and the Imaging Monitor should extract the
>trayapp
>> automatically.
>>
>> Tray App installers are on the Image Zone Disks that came with your
>> computer and almost alway on printer software installers.
>>
>> Good luck.
>> Dave
>