>This is for those of you that have installed Service Pack 3 and have had past problems with newer HP/Epson Printer drivers and the infamous C000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005 error when exiting your VFP app in an environment that does not have IE4 or greater or DCOM9x installed and you have set _SCREEN.Visible=.F. initially...
>Does the patch get rid of the problems as claimed? Can I get rid of DCOM95 in our network's WinBatch file. Can I stop pretending that HP6 and HP4000T printers are HP4s?

No, and no. You need DCOM to be installed properly; while the specific instance of C5 that is noted in the FAQ and MSKB article may have been worked around, there are things fixed by DCOM that really are important to Win9x as a whole, and possibly to your app. Blind installation of DCOM isn't a good move, either; you need to check the OS version, and the registry key, to see if DCOM has been previously installed on the system. Putting an older copy of DCOM in place by force on Win9x can be as troublesome as not putting it on when its needed.

As to the printer issue, SP3 addresses at least some of the invalid FP state issues, but I wouldn't count on it fixing everything.

IOW, if you have fixes that are working, unless you're losing something by using the HP4 drivers, I'd leave them in place.