Neil:  download the XP driver for your printer from the HP site at the link below 
after your text.
copy the driver to a floppy or CD.

then use the Add a Printer Wizard;
click Start, Control Panel, Printers and Other Hardware, Printers and Faxes icon;
click Add a Printer option in the left pane to open the Wizard;
select the Local Printer Attached option,
try the Automatically detect...

if not detected, proceed as follows from the above point;
click Next,
select the correct port,
select your printer,
when you click "Have Disk", use your downloaded driver disk,
the Wizard is looking for a file with an .inf extension.
set as default printer.
print a test page.
the icon for your printer should now be available.





On Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at 9:26 pm, Neil wrote:
>Actually, neither my Rage fury pro Graphics card NOR my brand new Hewlett Packard 
>deskjet 3820 work in XP.  The driver is there on the CD, but XP cannot see it.  
I've 
>moved the driver to a floppy, and to the C:Windows directory with no luck.  Even 
>though it is there, XP does not even display it is there, and the file type box 
is 
>grayed out.
>
>I had no trouble loading the driver software for the HP on my laptop that is running 
>win 2000, and it works fine on that machine.
>
>Any ideas?  I'm stumped, and frustrated.
http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/softwareList.jhtml;jsessionid=Q14NVPTPQX4M3QEXGRMEOSQ?reg=&cc=&prodId=hpdeskjet375045&lc=en&softitem=Microsoft%20Windows%20XP&sw_lang=en

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