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Can I copy part of register from another computer on XP to install printer?
Posted by Dave Neve on December 4th, 2005


Hello

I am in my 3rd week of trying to install a DCP-115 C Brother (or should that
be 'bother' printer

The install stops at 50% and by looking a Windows logs, it seems that it
tries to sollicit the Brother Spooler Service at this moment.

But the service is not available, due to an unwritten instruction in the
register according to Windows when I try to activate it.

I am now wondering if I found someone with the same printer on XP and got
them to copy the entries in the register pertaining to Brother, would I be
able to just merge them with my register and hey presto, the install would
rewrite instructions when it could but the missing ones would not be touched
and when install tries to run the Brother spooler service, it would actually
run and install could finish and I could get my life back

Any comments please?

Thanks

Dave Neve


Posted by Dave Patrick on December 4th, 2005


I'd ask them here.

http://www.brother-usa.com/AskUs/default.aspx

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"Dave Neve" wrote:
| Hello
|
| I am in my 3rd week of trying to install a DCP-115 C Brother (or should
that
| be 'bother' printer
|
| The install stops at 50% and by looking a Windows logs, it seems that it
| tries to sollicit the Brother Spooler Service at this moment.
|
| But the service is not available, due to an unwritten instruction in the
| register according to Windows when I try to activate it.
|
| I am now wondering if I found someone with the same printer on XP and got
| them to copy the entries in the register pertaining to Brother, would I be
| able to just merge them with my register and hey presto, the install would
| rewrite instructions when it could but the missing ones would not be
touched
| and when install tries to run the Brother spooler service, it would
actually
| run and install could finish and I could get my life back
|
| Any comments please?
|
| Thanks
|
| Dave Neve
|
|


Posted by Richard Urban on December 4th, 2005


You would have to pay me a great amount of money to copy ALL of the registry
entries pertaining to a piece of installed hardware. There could be many
hundreds of entries, and finding them all would take countless hours.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
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"Dave Neve" <NoAddressForSpammers@Nofs.fr> wrote in message
news:eKjAm6N%23FHA.1032@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hello
>
> I am in my 3rd week of trying to install a DCP-115 C Brother (or should
> that be 'bother' printer
>
> The install stops at 50% and by looking a Windows logs, it seems that it
> tries to sollicit the Brother Spooler Service at this moment.
>
> But the service is not available, due to an unwritten instruction in the
> register according to Windows when I try to activate it.
>
> I am now wondering if I found someone with the same printer on XP and got
> them to copy the entries in the register pertaining to Brother, would I be
> able to just merge them with my register and hey presto, the install would
> rewrite instructions when it could but the missing ones would not be
> touched and when install tries to run the Brother spooler service, it
> would actually run and install could finish and I could get my life back
>
> Any comments please?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave Neve
>



Posted by st.daniel on December 5th, 2005


Is "Print Spooler" Service set to "Enabled" in Control Panel>Admin
Tools>Services?

"Dave Neve" wrote:

> Hello
>
> I am in my 3rd week of trying to install a DCP-115 C Brother (or should that
> be 'bother' printer
>
> The install stops at 50% and by looking a Windows logs, it seems that it
> tries to sollicit the Brother Spooler Service at this moment.
>
> But the service is not available, due to an unwritten instruction in the
> register according to Windows when I try to activate it.
>
> I am now wondering if I found someone with the same printer on XP and got
> them to copy the entries in the register pertaining to Brother, would I be
> able to just merge them with my register and hey presto, the install would
> rewrite instructions when it could but the missing ones would not be touched
> and when install tries to run the Brother spooler service, it would actually
> run and install could finish and I could get my life back
>
> Any comments please?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave Neve
>
>
>

Posted by Uncle Grumpy on December 5th, 2005


Dave Neve wrote:

> I am now wondering if I found someone with the same printer on XP and got
> them to copy the entries in the register pertaining to Brother, would I be
> able to just merge them with my register and hey presto, the install would
> rewrite instructions when it could but the missing ones would not be touched
> and when install tries to run the Brother spooler service, it would actually
> run and install could finish and I could get my life back
>
> Any comments please?


Yeah.

You're clueless.

Posted by Dave Neve on December 5th, 2005


Yep, it is set to 'enabled' but the software creates a second spooler
service and this is where there is a problem.

When I try to launch this service manually, it tells me that there is a
missing entry in the registry.

Thanks anyway
"st.daniel" <stdaniel@discussions.microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de
news: D7CBC99E-1E31-405E-AFAF-62DE78E61C1A@microsoft.com...
> Is "Print Spooler" Service set to "Enabled" in Control Panel>Admin
> Tools>Services?
>
> "Dave Neve" wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> I am in my 3rd week of trying to install a DCP-115 C Brother (or should
>> that
>> be 'bother' printer
>>
>> The install stops at 50% and by looking a Windows logs, it seems that it
>> tries to sollicit the Brother Spooler Service at this moment.
>>
>> But the service is not available, due to an unwritten instruction in the
>> register according to Windows when I try to activate it.
>>
>> I am now wondering if I found someone with the same printer on XP and got
>> them to copy the entries in the register pertaining to Brother, would I
>> be
>> able to just merge them with my register and hey presto, the install
>> would
>> rewrite instructions when it could but the missing ones would not be
>> touched
>> and when install tries to run the Brother spooler service, it would
>> actually
>> run and install could finish and I could get my life back
>>
>> Any comments please?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dave Neve
>>
>>
>>




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