No items showing in Devices and Printers


  1. silent54
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    Win 7 Pro 64 bit
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    No items showing in Devices and Printers


    I've been having this problem for a while now and it's only a issue now because I have printer issues. I'm running Win 7 Pro 64bit. Every time I bring up the Devices and Printers windows either through the Windows Icon on taskbar or Control Panel, it scans forever until I close the widow never to list anything. Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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  3. koolkat77
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    Windows 10 Home 64Bit
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    you could check if the "Printer and Document service" is enabled in Turn on/Turn off windows features.
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  4. silent54
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    That option is enabled or at least 3 of the 5. LPD and LPR are the ones turned off.
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  6. patked
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    Windows 7 professional
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    The answer is here on this site and it worked for me.

    Device and Printer window is blank
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  7. koolkat77
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    glad you got it sorted.you can mark the thread as solved :)
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  8. silent54
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    Thanks patked. MB has Bluetooth but I had the service disabled. Once changed to auto everything in Devices and Printers showed up.
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