Duplicate or ghosts printers in Windows 7

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  original title: Ghost at startup window

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  Add a network to launch the command line printer

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  With the HP, use Windows Update (I'm sure that the driver has been included in Vista).

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• No printer not appearing in devices and printers in Windows 7

  This is quite disconcerting, and after a thorough search, I can't find an answer to work.

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  Alan Morris Windows printing team seek here Microsoft Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/search/Default.aspx?adv=1