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aardvaak
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edited 21 January 2019 at 5:25PM in Techie Stuff
Why is it everytime microsoft send one of their pathetic silly updates to my computor I have to re-install the drivers for my printer?

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  • Neil49
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    What is the make and model of your printer, and how old is it?
  • aardvaak
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    Neil49 wrote: »
    What is the make and model of your printer, and how old is it?


    HP 2130 2-3 years old
  • forgotmyname
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    Printer services are a backdoor into the windows updates. Naughty MS....

    Cannot remember which service now, but its there and took me a while to track it down.

    Stopping windows 10 auto updating was not easy. Stopped/Disabled services kept auto loading again and again.
    Censorship Reigns Supreme in Troll City...

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