Green DNA Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 My father just bought a new laptop with the Vista O/S and cannot get his HP printer to work. It keeps looking for the driver and never finds it. I went to the HP website and they claim that the driver is already in Vista. I spent a couple fo hours screwing around with this thing yesterday and wanted to punch a hole in the wall by the time I was done. Has anyone had a similar issue? Also, I installed AVG anti-virus on the machine and the CPU and memory usage is always around 50%!! That is nuts. Not a huge issue, because all my dad does is surf the web, but it just seems like something is wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rillo Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Did a quick google search on "Hp printer with vista", seems to be a problem with drivers and support for Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 My father just bought a new laptop with the Vista O/S and cannot get his HP printer to work. It keeps looking for the driver and never finds it. I went to the HP website and they claim that the driver is already in Vista. I spent a couple fo hours screwing around with this thing yesterday and wanted to punch a hole in the wall by the time I was done. Has anyone had a similar issue? Also, I installed AVG anti-virus on the machine and the CPU and memory usage is always around 50%!! That is nuts. Not a huge issue, because all my dad does is surf the web, but it just seems like something is wrong. Your note on AVG interests me. I installed it on my dad's computer and the thing runs terribly slowly. Maybe I'll try something different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gainzo Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Your note on AVG interests me. I installed it on my dad's computer and the thing runs terribly slowly. Maybe I'll try something different. I have used AVG for nearly 2 years and have never had a problem with it. IMO Symantec and McAfee are much bigger memory hogs than AVG. Note: I have a desktop with Vista and AVG does run a little slow. No problem on my laptop running XP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green DNA Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 I'm going pick up the laptop tonight and try hooking up a different printer to see if it is just an HP problem (and there is an HP problem) I am also going to play around with the virus and spam programs to get the CPU and memory usage down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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