Problem opening up device & printers


  1. mjbarr3
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    Problem opening up device & printers


    Hello, Seem I only make contact when I have a problem. I'm so glad you guys are here.
    Anyway, While I opened up the control Panel - hdwe and sound - devices and printers , to check on a printer glitch on my wife's pc ( dell inspiron win7 ) I noticed that it took nearly 5 minutes to load and when the green line finally hit the end nothing happened( program did not open up) tiny circle was still spinning.
    I tried to open the program up using the device and printer program on start menu and same thing happened.

    Any idea what's going on ?
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  3. ICIT2LOL
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    Mjbar mate try > Start > Devices and Printers it should give you a screen like my pic.
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  4. mjbarr3
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    Thanks for the reply ICIT2LOL, Maybe I didn't make myself clear but I know how to get to that program and yes I should see what is in your screenshot, However , When I try to open it up none of my peripherals load into the program and spinning circle just continues to spin.

    Hope that makes it clearer, TIA
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  6. mjbarr3
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    Anyone ?
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  7. ICIT2LOL
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    Ok I would fist run a couple of scans of the system so try these
    SFC /SCANNOW : Run in Command Prompt at Boot

    Disk Check < I prefer option 2

    The SFC is also best run for at least three runs
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