I\u2019m usu\u00adally the chief sysad\u00admin in the fam\u00adily for the things like the print\u00ader and the Win\u00addows boxes. In the interests of mak\u00ading it easi\u00ader for myself in the future and hope\u00adfully oth\u00aders, here are a couple of things I fixed this week.<\/p>\n
For some reas\u00adon the print\u00ader, an old but still very pro\u00adduct\u00adive HP<\/span> Col\u00ador Laser\u00adjet 4550 that cost a hor\u00adrendous amount when we first bought it back in 1998 or there\u00adabouts, star\u00adted hav\u00ading con\u00adnip\u00adtions when we wanted to print out files. Mostly it blew up on Open\u00adOf\u00adfice or Microsoft Word doc\u00adu\u00adments. The error was 49.4C04<\/span> Ser\u00advice Error. Pok\u00ading around on the web revealed a bunch of com\u00adpletely use\u00adless information:<\/p>\n What did work was rein\u00adstalling the drivers. Not the PCL<\/span> 6 drivers that Win\u00addows tried to tell me to take, the PCL<\/span> 5 drivers. Those PCL<\/span> 5 drivers actu\u00adally work on our sys\u00adtem, unlike the PCL<\/span> 6 drivers.<\/p>\n The oth\u00ader prob\u00adlem that I found the solu\u00adtion to was the size of the Norton Pro\u00adtec\u00adted Recycle Bin. I installed this some years ago, have nev\u00ader used it, and found that it kept grow\u00ading. And grow\u00ading. And would\u00adn\u2019t let itself be cleaned up, no mat\u00adter how often I told it to purge itself. So I unin\u00adstalled and then tried to delete the recycler\/nprotect dir\u00adect\u00adory files. No dice. The Norton web\u00adsite sug\u00adges\u00adtion did\u00adn\u2019t work either (sounds weird, but it\u2019s true); what did work was the sug\u00adges\u00adtion I found online: rmdir \/s \\\\?\\C:\\RECYCLER<\/span>\\NPROTECT<\/span><\/a>. I sus\u00adpect the Norton recycle bin will not be rein\u00adstalled on my system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m usu\u00adally the chief sysad\u00admin in the fam\u00adily for the things like the print\u00ader and the Win\u00addows boxes. In the interests of mak\u00ading it easi\u00ader for myself in the future and hope\u00adfully oth\u00aders, here are a couple of things I fixed this week. For some reas\u00adon the print\u00ader, an old but still very pro\u00adduct\u00adive HP<\/span> Col\u00ador \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cMis\u00adcel\u00adlaneous Sysadmin\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n