>Utilizing the vast resources of the UT, I have narrowed my freezing issues in Win95/98 to be the use of HP drivers. I can now recreate the locking up, or blue screen fatal exceptions my users were experiencing. Previous threads have noted that the _fpreset() function suggested by MSKB does NOT fix the problem, which is my experience also. It seems that the only solution is to switch users to MS versions of their printer drivers. Does this seem correct? Anyone know if this is being addressed at MS? Finally, does anyone know of a good article or document I can show my users to convince them that HP drivers are problematic (even though this issue may not be HP's fault) so that I don't look incompetent when I tell them my program can't use HP drivers? All feedback is most welcome.
>TIA
>Marcus.


HP is notorious for creating buggy drivers. I can't use my HP Deskjet 722C and my parallel Zip Drive. I have to uninstall the printer drivers. I have also seen where using the PCL-5 version of the driver solves problems that exist with the PCL-6 version of the driver. If you are using a laserjet, you could try the HPII driver. BTW, Microsoft does not create printer drivers, so you'll need to use the ones from HP.