Modifying the registry was the key, It suddenly occurred to me that I had a copy of what was supposed to be in the printer registry print subfolder on my wifes Vista machine.
I examined the files of both machines carefully, set a restore point, backed up the registry manually (all subkeys) and exported the print sub folder to a thumb drive.
Merge, restart, PRINT!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to all the help I received on this subject. It was a major learning experience.
Not bad for a 54 year old semi truck driver......(;
Ronn "Pslytely Psycho" Kelley
Spokane, Washington.
Edit..found it rather amusing what little was in my printer driver folder under "driver date"...it said
"01/01/1601"
When I restarted my computer it installed a ton of updates that would not install before. Update is now also functioning properly.
