[jameslindsay]

Kerstin my main pc is Windows XP and the lap top Vista. I put the lap top onto my printer and it threw out the PC with XP. It can only be one or the other I was told.

[northfifeduckling]

even if the printer is run via a USB? As nothing at all was happening on the PC I have he feeling it might be a hardware problem. I only loaded the printer onto the laptop after he trouble started yesterday...

[doganjo]

Could you maybe clear absolutely everything off the old one except what they need?  Or is it totally dead anyway?

[northfifeduckling]

it's not loading up fully. the hourglass is going but apart from all the windows icons showing that's it, even the clock stopped working... maybe I should go into the setup during sart up, but what would I do there or look for?
and today first time ever since I had them he ducks are refusing to leave their house, whatever is going on there? 

[doganjo]

James, my laptop is on XP, my PC was on Vista and is now on Windows 7 - both can send to my two printers with no problem. One printer is a deskjet and the other a laser.  To my knowledge it's the settings that control whether a printer can be used not the operating system.

[jameslindsay]

Annie you are more up on technology on me then, next time you are here you can sort my PC out ha ha

[northfifeduckling]

I managed to get in via the visitors icon today, took ALL programs off liek the new printer, games, spyware, and defragged it, ran the virus scan. The resident shield actially found a worm, so hard ro tell what caused the problem. At least he kids can go on and homework will go on a memory stick and printed off mine...relief 

[doganjo]

Well done, Kerstin!