[OFB Cafe] Vista Woes

[Timothy Butler]

Hi everyone,
	I really should make a policy of refusing to touch Vista PCs. They  
usually seem to get worse after working on them. So the case is now. I  
have a client who has a Vista PC which will no longer autoplay Windows  
Image Gallery on insertion of a compact flash card (though the card  
reads just fine in the computer -- it just refuses to do the normal  
autoplay, despite all of the autoplay settings being fine and it  
autoplaying fine if it launches Windows Explorer instead)...

	Even worse, the Brother HL-1440 printer they have no longer works.  
Every time I reinstall the printer it refuses to print a test page  
(without any on screen errors). When I go to view printer properties  
afterwards, Windows always reports that the printer's drivers are not  
installed and prompts to install them. Doing so only satisfies it  
until the next time I try to do anything with the printer. It never  
does print.

	The printer works fine on another, Windows ME computer (gasp, I know)  
and it works fine on the problem computer when using an Ubuntu Live CD.

	Any ideas?

	Thanks,
		Tim

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