I have attempted to load the drivers for my Laserjet P1006 which is USB connected to my windows 8.1 Dell. The windows 8.1 driver seems to load since there is a message saying the drivers have loaded but the HP software for the printer doesn't show up in the list of software that's available using the Control Panel functions; the printer is shown in the list of devices. While typing this note some of the printing I requested earlier in the day started printing but when I checked the print queue for the printer there were items that I requested a few minutes ago that are sitting there and the bar at the top of the display for what's printing says something is printing but it maybe doing that very slowly. I first loaded the drivers for Windows 7 on my machine with Windows 8 and nothing worked; I couldn't remove the P1005 software from the list of software in the control panel and spent a few hours with a Microsoft person who finally got the item from the list but I'm beginning to think there may be bits of the old software hanging around which prevents the new software from loading.
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