I have an HP laptop and wireless printer who won't speak to each other today.
If I try to print it fails.
The status of the printer from the laptop is Error - needs trouble shooting. I've tried running the trouble shoot and it fixes everything but the connectivity when it finally tells me to contact my administrator! Oh how I wish I had on of those!
I've reconnected the printer to the wireless network, rebooted both but no luck. I just cannot seem to get a link going between the two. Any ideas?
PS The only thing that's changed since I printed last was I changed the magenta cartridge this morning.
It's your computer, Maiders .............. you can be administrator if you want!
Google something like "Windows log on as administrator". The fixes are on there.
Thanks builder but I am the administrator, (checked the account and it is set as that) and logged in as admin, still don't know what to do to connect with my printer.
No Techies appear to be around I'm afraid, so I can only tell you what I do in these circumstances.................... uninstall all the printer software, drivers etc.......... then re-install from disk. You should be "as new" then.
I'm sure there are simpler, more direct ways of fixing this, but at least you're sure of a clean installation with this.