I have a couple of issues that deal with USB stick drives.  My
girlfriend has a Dell computer with an HP printer.  This printer
was used on her old system with a parallel cable so now it's
used on the new system with the same cable.  But whenever a stick
drive is in a USB connection, she can't print until the stick is
removed.  Everything seems to be okay, it just doesn't want to
print.  I can't think of what to do besides say "What the..."

It seems that stick drive manufacturers have fallen in love with
U3.  That's fine if you have a Windows computer and have an admin
account to disable/use the critter effectively.  At work I'm not
admin on anything, at home I have one XP machine, the rest are
either to old or don't run Windows.  So how can I actually get
rid of the crappy U3 stuff.  It appears as a pair of drives (a
normal volume along with a CD volume) on the machines I've tried
to use it with (I didn't try it with the Win98SE system).  It
would seem logical, at least to me, that if the CD-ROM appears
on a system, that system should be able to get rid of that crap!

Can anybody point me in the right direction about what to do
about either item.

-- 
Take care  | This clown speaks for himself, his job doesn't
Wayne D.   | supply this, at least not directly
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