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Why a duplicate printer driver install?
Posted by dexx on October 19th, 2005


I run Windows XP SP2 and a Canon iP3000 printer. Ive noticed the
following behaviour with other printers as well.

In windows\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 there are two subdirectories;
'3' and 'canonip300082f7'. These directories appear to hold exactly the
same 15mb of content. Does anyone know why there are two?

Posted by Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers on October 19th, 2005


Hi,

No, I don't know, but I can tell you that this behavior does not occur on
any of the systems I maintain. Mostly using HP printers, some installed
locally, some networked.

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"dexx" <D3xx@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I run Windows XP SP2 and a Canon iP3000 printer. Ive noticed the
> following behaviour with other printers as well.
>
> In windows\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 there are two subdirectories;
> '3' and 'canonip300082f7'. These directories appear to hold exactly the
> same 15mb of content. Does anyone know why there are two?
>


Posted by Plato on October 20th, 2005


dexx wrote:
>
> I run Windows XP SP2 and a Canon iP3000 printer. Ive noticed the
> following behaviour with other printers as well.
>
> In windows\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 there are two subdirectories;
> '3' and 'canonip300082f7'. These directories appear to hold exactly the
> same 15mb of content. Does anyone know why there are two?

What's not working?



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