- install printer drivers
- Posted by mc on April 21st, 2008
I'm reinstalling my old win 95 (1st version) that came with my packard bell.
It is not installing my hp laser jet 5L correctly using the original disks
(3).It did not install an uninstall icon either. I tried to install abuilt
in driver like the hp 4L but it does not install either. Anyone remember any
tricks to get the hardware wizard to install a driver? How can I uninstall
the the driver I installed but did not work?
mc
- Posted by Jeff Richards on April 21st, 2008
In W98, you uninstall a printer by right-clicking the printer in the
printers 'folder' in My Computer and selecting Delete.
Only the supprting utilities that the vendor sometimes provides will have an
entry in Add/Remove Programs.
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- Posted by philo on April 21st, 2008
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And the proceedure for win95 would be the same
- Posted by mc on April 21st, 2008
I'm wondering if that will also remove the status window it created that
sits on the staus bar??
mc
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- Posted by Jeff Richards on April 22nd, 2008
It would indeed 
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- Posted by thanatoid on April 23rd, 2008
"mc" <wcwall.awm@verizon.net> wrote in
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Get the updated drivers from the HP site. I have an HP6L and the
original disks were superseded. I am sure the same happened for
the HP5L.
Also, you are making a big mistake by reinstalling Win95A. Win
95B or C was ALMOST Win 98 (without the stupid IE
"integration"/Active Desktop) and is vastly superior. You can
fdisk with FAT32, to begin with. You can get 95B/C from a warez
group (even the floppy version!) or at a garage sale or eBay -
if you think MS cares and/or were harshly toilet-trained.
The HP status window can be removed in win.ini (it's right at
the beginning) but it will come back every time you boot up. I
just right click and close it. Some things one is just powerless
against. (Before someone mentions it, I believe I tried a
"start-up manager" as well but it still kept on coming back.
Anyway, I don't care. There are worse things than having to do
one right click. Like having to reboot every time I forget and
make the mistake of thinking it is possible to cancel an MS/HP-
driven print job.)
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- Posted by mc on April 24th, 2008
well the right click approach will not let me delete the icon...I wonder if
there was a printer update for the first versions of win 95 A?
mc
- Posted by Jeff Richards on April 24th, 2008
What happened when you tried? Is the delete option missing or greyed out,
or is it there but doesn't seem to do anything?
Have you tried selecting the printer and then hitting DEL or choosing File /
Delete?
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- Posted by mc on April 24th, 2008
It just does not respond...
mc
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- Posted by J. P. Gilliver on July 4th, 2008
thanatoid wrote:
Equally, if you actually install '98 but via (or modify it afterwards by
using) 98lite, this will give you the opportuinity to use the '95 shell
(thus much faster, as it doesn't have the eye candy and so on), but with
most of the extra robustness, and some things like USB, that come with '98.
(You can get rid of IE too - altogether if you wish.)
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- Posted by thanatoid on July 6th, 2008
"J. P. Gilliver" <john.gilliver@baesystems.com> wrote in
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Since the OP was talking about 95A (and because I get lazy), I
did not bother getting into 98SE, let alone Lite.
I have been a happy user of 98SE Lite for about 4 years, since I
got a second computer for audio conversions etc. It was a used
but very clean 2GHz machine which originally had XP on it. It
came with a wiped "factory-new condition" (I tested it) Maxtor
drive on which I installed the aforementioned 98SE Lite. I left
IE in because it is necessary to read chm files, but that
machine is not even connected to the internet, so no IE
"problems" :-)
My internet machine (this one) is a 10.5 year old 166 w/ 96MB
RAM running highly tweaked 95B. It boots in less than 45 seconds
and never crashes. Take that, Vista.
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