The HP 8500 wireless printer will recognize the computers in the house that has vista or windows 7 but not XP. How can we get it to recognize all computers in home no matter the operating system.
Does your computer running XP have wireless capability? Does the computer running XP recognize the other Vista and Win7 machines?Does your computer running XP have wireless capability? Does the computer running XP recognize the other Vista and Win7 machines?
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Devices and printers
Find the printer you wish to bring online
If you are using windows xp- double click on the printer
If you are using Windows 7 or vista- right click on the printer and select "see what's printing"
Hit "printer" in the menu bar
Toggle the "use printer offline selection"
Windows 7 has drivers for that printer in it's database. If you manually add the printer by going to Start>Devices and Printers>Add Printer you should then be able to select the driver from the Windows driver database.
Alternately you can download the latest drivers from the link below. You will just need to choose the operating system depending if it is a 32/64 bit edition of Windows 7. If you're not sure right-click on Computer from the start menu and go to properties.
for following Operating System » Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit) » Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit) » Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 » Microsoft Windows Server 2008 W32 » Microsoft Windows Vista » Microsoft Windows Vista (64-bit) » Microsoft Windows XP» Microsoft Windows Server 2003 » Microsoft Windows Server 2003 64-Bit Edition » Microsoft Windows 2000 Server » Microsoft Windows XP x64 » Microsoft Windows 2000 » Mac OS X » Linux
Does your computer running XP have wireless capability? Does the computer running XP recognize the other Vista and Win7 machines?
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