Hi Gregy, On Sat, 07 Dec 2002 21:58:08 -0700, you wrote:
> Laurie, > http://www.hp.com/ > provided me with no problems....you should go in with Arachne 1.71 > with images OFF. They supply ALL their links on alternate "java > disabled browser" pages. Over the weekend I tried on three occasions. Expecting "trouble" I made my first attempt with IE3. First port of call was http://www.driverguide.com where I am registed and the resulting search bounces me to http://www.hp.com etc, Where you just get little bit's of info requiring many many link's to click. Within a short time IE3 choked up, and slowed to a crawl. Trying to drop the phoneline and close IE was very difficult, it was suggested that the current JAVA was not the JAVA IE3 was expecting ??? The Exploiter box closed after 1 minutes delay to my click. I was lucky to avoid a crash. Second attempt, was in Arachne and suprissingly was much faster/better after 45 clicks I am presented with a HP 500 driver for W98,ME, or XP. No 95, so I crossed fingers and selected 98. I was told I was a silly boy, and there was no need to download this driver as it was on the W98 install CD. Grrrrr Third attempt tonight. In Arachne did a search for another printer driver for another dumpster laser printer (actually 3) a Kyocerea, which took me to http://www.drivers.com/ and doing a search there for an HP gave a precise link for a HP Deskjet 500 driver at... wait for it http://driverguide.com I clicked the link, up pops the box for my password and there it is, at the website I started at in the first place three days ago. Problem is if you use the search at that site you go directly to HP's main site, rather than being given the option to download the one they have at driverguide.com Using the other sites search facility, I found both drivers quickly and downloaded both. It's proberbly just my inexperience. All this palava because I havent got provision to fit a CD rom on this machine and insert the W95 CD rom install disk. It's not a problem because I don't install software on here, but it's a royal pain getting drivers installed. Those with long memories will remember I daisy-chained a borrowed Cd rom drive into the single IDE port to install W95 in the first place. > ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/ (or /pub2/) > should provide you with HOURS of browsing/snooping/scooping > pleasure.....I think they've even got the old Win3.0 drivers for > my HP Flatbed Scanner....<g g g> Thank's for the link... > ......gregy Regards Laurie
