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Waiting for printer connection

Anonymous
2023-12-14T05:51:25+00:00

“Waiting for printer connection” pop up started coming up a couple of weeks ago and has been causing multiple issues.

Excel and Word randomly do not open, and then when I open the program again it tells me the file is already in use yet nothing is open. Task manager shows nothing open or running. I have to restart my computer each time to use the document or workbook and I sometimes I need to do this more than once before it will decide to randomly work.

I cannot print new documents or workbooks, it becomes unresponsive and then the program has to close. I can only print from saved documents, which o can’t always open!

MYOB cannot print now, I have to save as a pdf and then print. I know MYOB isn’t “Microsoft” but this only started when this pop up started. I have never experienced this issue before.

This is happening on all four computers and started at the exact same time.

I have tried turning off all network sharing connections and still no change.

This is really impacting my day to day operations ans these programs are all I use. It causing a significant loss of time.

Can someone please help?

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-08T13:11:05+00:00

    Yes. It still persists. I probably should have responded to this earlier but I’m just so over it I’ve lost all motivation to try and resolve it. All my Microsoft applications still become unresponsive multiple times everyday and I lose so much work having to restart the program. I’m confident it’s due to the Microsoft programs trying to find a printer but it’s just a part of life now.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-31T00:19:28+00:00

    I got the message in Access a few minutes ago (for the first time), but it actually cleared after 20-30 seconds and the report printed. What I find interesting is that I brought up a new computer earlier this month. I was able to manually duplex on my HP M127fw as is normal. Suddenly, however, I am no longer able to duplex. That popped up right about the same time as this issue. May have to try uninstalling and reinstalling the printer.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-19T18:23:27+00:00

    I got rid of the error by using:

    Go to "Printers & scanners", click on the default printer and click "Remove Device".

    Then, to get your desired printer, search for it again, and reset it as default if needed.

    That fixed my issue.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-19T14:23:43+00:00

    Thank you for good solution. It works well for me. I changed default printer to PDF and it stops MS notifications messages.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-14T17:46:34+00:00

    Yep, exactly my experience - solved it by:

    • "Let Windows manage my default printer" OFF
    • "Default printer" MICROSOFT PRINT TO PDF

    Thanks Peter.
    That is exactly what I did and it has solved the problem.

    The only thing to remember when printing an image is to select the preferred printer before clicking 'print', but that's quick and easy to do.

    I'm surprised, though, that Microsoft haven't made the necessary changes to Windows Updates to put this right.

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