>>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.
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>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.

My stuff works fine when I use the laserjet 6p driver that comes on my win98 CD, but crashes when I load old or new HP laserjet 6p driver from the HP web site. If I go into the printer properties, and click the about button, it says "laserjet 6p version 3.2 copyright Microsoft Corporation...". This is the one that works for me, regardless of who made it, but nothing I download from HP works with VFP. (for the laserjet6 that is). I actually don't have an HP laserjet, I've just been testing the different drivers by previewing my reports, but several of my customers run the HP laserjet 6 series.