core driver error

Hello,
I'm having a strange problem with my printer drivers. I have been
using my canon for a while on my laptops, shared from my desktop. I had
it installed for 2 users on my laptop. When I tried later to install it
for a third, it said: "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Unable to
find a core driver package that is required by the printer driver
package". I went back to one of the other account, removed it and tried
to add it right back with the same error.
Has anyone else seen this? I know this is mostly server focused now,
but this is really weird and I can't print!

thanks,
adam

One more thing I noticed. It looks like the print enumerator is showing
up as an unknown device...

AdamC wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm having a strange problem with my printer drivers. I have been
> using my canon for a while on my laptops, shared from my desktop. I had
> it installed for 2 users on my laptop. When I tried later to install it
> for a third, it said: "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Unable to
> find a core driver package that is required by the printer driver
> package". I went back to one of the other account, removed it and tried
> to add it right back with the same error.
> Has anyone else seen this? I know this is mostly server focused now,
> but this is really weird and I can't print!
>
> thanks,
> adam

Try this it worked for me, I had the same problem.
Here is the fix for the "Empty Printer List".



C:\windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 is most likely corrupt and should be deleted.

You will need to edit its file permissions to give Full Control to the

User Group before you will be allowed to delete it.



Credit to: Bob (of), Windows Vista Community, Hardware & Devices



I personally used this method and it works and works well. But I assume
no liability or credit.


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OzBoy