How to Disable popup printer status box

Question

Hi,
We have a Dell 1720 printer. The driver puts a "status" popup on the screen as it prints. My problem is that we have some very old software that apparently uses screen captures to print reports and the printer status window shows on the printed forms.
The best solution for us whould be to stop the driver from popping up during the print. Can we do that?

Manning

europa303 · Answer

You may be able to disable this 'feature' by going into msconfig, startup tab, and unchecking anything to do with this printer.

tygereeye · Answer

you could also try uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, either from CD or dell website and make sure that status monitor is NOT checked for download prior to installation.

ManningGrinnan · Answer

Thanks for the suggestions. I have grabbed the newest drivers off of the web but when I installed them, I did not see any options to dumb down the interface. I'll try again just to make sure. I also tried to just move the window so that it was mostly off of the screen, but the software will not allow the window position to be saved when any part of it is off of the screen. Cheers, Manning

ManningGrinnan · Answer

Solution:The uninstall utility as run from the start menu has an option to uninstall the status monitor as an individual item. I don't know how I missed that before. Thanks for your attention. Cheers, Manning

tygereeye · Answer

kewl....glad the issue's resolved.   case closed.  :smileywink:

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