Its really not the job of the OS, but rather the job of the program. In two of the cases, those are MS programs, in the third, its probably something that we as programmers should be checking for.

>That's all well and good, but howse about MS' renowned new OS letting the user know rather than just failing?!?!?!?!?
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>I was lucky to even be offered to debug and luckier yet to connect module named "HP021002" (or some such) to a printer.
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>Cheers,
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>JimN
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>SNIP
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>>The reason is that in order to be able to preview, the printer driver is used to render the preview image. If nothing else, if you have a fax modem, just install that printer driver. One of the problems with 2000 (and NT as well) is that NT or 2000 printers being used on the machine don't actually install the driver, but rather a pointer to the driver on the remote machine.