Found new hardware wizard keeps appearing

[pacific04]

Ever since I re-installed my XP OS (Service pack 1a), each time I boot up, the "Found new hardware wizard" appears and it says that a new printer has been found and asks to install it. However, the printer has already been installed.

I found a thread by someone with a similare problem (dated last year), but there was no solution posted. Can anyone help to resolve this problem? Thanks.

[Miz]

The easiest thing to try first is to uninstall the Printer, reboot and let XP install it to its satisfaction.

[pacific04]

I've tried that already, but it doesn't work ... the problem is still there, and the Found new hardware balloon keeps popping up.

Microsoft offered a solution at: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;298370

Tried to follow the instructions, but found that I could not delete the registry key.

Appreciate any advice.

[pacific04]

Mananged to delete the registry key that microsoft instructed, but the problem is still not resolved.

Can anyone offer a solution? I have living with this problem for several months ... would really like to get rid of this problem.

[bigsk8er7786]

the only thing that i can say is uninstall the software and reboot your computer and run the found new hardware wizard and reinstall your software. Give it a try. L8ER!

[pacific04]

Thanks for your suggestion, but I've tried that already and it doesn't work.

Still looking forward to the solution.

[HateMyPC]

Kill the found new hardware wizard by running services.msc and then turn
off Shell hardware detection