Found new hardware won't go away...

Even though the printer driver has been installed. I actually keep getting the found new hardware bubble and the wizard popping up saying that the printer driver did not install correctly every time my laptop is plugged into my printer. The first time I attempted to install my printer off of my old disk ( cannon bubble jet s300- ancient but works great) It did not install correctly. I contacted Cannon and they sent me a new disk with I assume newer drivers since their website did not have the drivers on it either. Now the correct drivers are installed and the printer works but that stupid wizard still keeps coming up. You click finish and it just pops right back up.

Any ideas how I can fix this? It of course does not happen when the printer is unattached but it does hinder progress when I am trying to print something.

Thanks.

 

Look in Device Manager for any errors and/or hardware you don't recognise.

 

Hi andreaho
Whenever I've had awkward or klutzy installs it usually boils down to how the manufacturer wrote the install scripts. So you have to begin again. Uninstall every reference to the printer in Device Manager. Yeah, go ahead, delete them. Also, uninstall any printer software - until it's all clean. Disconnect the printer. Restart your machine, without the printer connected. Then put the printer install CD into your drive and install the software for that printer. Once that's done, there will be registry entries created that will execute the proper programs for your printer when it is restarted. Shut down the computer. Connect the printer. Restart the computer -- those pending programs will now kick in to help Windows rebuild it's database. It should also get rid of that pesky "new hardware found" wizard. I hope this helps.