Hi Sarah,

I don't even remember that I sent a reply to your original post. Anyways,
you said that you had some hardware reshuffling? Are you using a Cyrix
CPU? Had a problem once on that where the guy who assembled the PC made
a wrong jumper setting which caused all sorts of weird problems in Word
and the other parts of MS Office.

You could check WIN.INI which is where the printers are listed. Look in
the [Ports] section.

HTH


>Hi Arriyel
>
>I'm reasonably confident I will be testing your memory here but I made sorting this printer problem a low priority after some other things blew up. So here I am again, have reinstalled the printers & rebooted but still only 4 available and none of them are the 2 I need. Any more ideas?
>Sarah
>
>>Hi Sarah,
>>
>>You might have lost the printer port paths in your network.
>>Try to reinstall your ports in the printers of windows control panel.
>>
>>HTH
>>
>>>I have an app in fox 2.6 for windows (no time to upgrade, it works fine) but after a reshuffle of hardware I've lost visibility of some of my printers.
>>>
>>>The list of available printers shows only 4 printers of a possible 14.
>>>
>>>VFP shows the complete list. Word '97 shows the complete list. Excel '97 shows the same list as fox 2.6. Bit spooky.
>>>
>>>Where is the list of printers controlled from? How is it determined? Any ideas on where to go.
>>>
>>>My only workaround is to make all reports print to the default printer and then change the default printer each time I have to print a different type of report. Primitive but atleast we can work. Not ideal and we have some print jobs which print once to each of our 2 real printers. (The others include the fax printer and 11 are for the generation of graphics files which are sent electronically to the printers)
>>>
>>>thanks -- Sarah