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Hello javapoppa. Welcome to the Forum.
You could try this workaround. I can't tell you it will work, but it's worth a shot.
First, open the printers properties and note the USB port number that the printer is installed to (it should be a 'virtual printer port'.
Then find the driver files for your printer by browsing the CD or downloaded package (they will be .inf files) and copy these to a USB stick or easy to find folder on your hard drive.
Create a System Restore Point.
I then would uninstall the 'IEEE-1284' printer, disconnect it, and restart.
Before connecting the printer follow these steps:
1. Go to Devices and Printers > Add a Printer > Choose: Local Printer
2. Choose: “Create a New Port” > Local Port > Next
3. Enter port name (the port you wrote down previously)
4. Choose: Have Disk > Browse to driver folder (on stick) > Select it > OK > OK
5. Type a printer name
6. Share this printer? > Yes or No
If successful, then plug the printer into the same USB port you plugged into before. Hopefully Windows will find the drivers and connect to the printer.
Let us know if that works. If it doesn't, you can use System Restore to undo your changes.
You could try this workaround. I can't tell you it will work, but it's worth a shot.
First, open the printers properties and note the USB port number that the printer is installed to (it should be a 'virtual printer port'.
Then find the driver files for your printer by browsing the CD or downloaded package (they will be .inf files) and copy these to a USB stick or easy to find folder on your hard drive.
Create a System Restore Point.
I then would uninstall the 'IEEE-1284' printer, disconnect it, and restart.
Before connecting the printer follow these steps:
1. Go to Devices and Printers > Add a Printer > Choose: Local Printer
2. Choose: “Create a New Port” > Local Port > Next
3. Enter port name (the port you wrote down previously)
4. Choose: Have Disk > Browse to driver folder (on stick) > Select it > OK > OK
5. Type a printer name
6. Share this printer? > Yes or No
If successful, then plug the printer into the same USB port you plugged into before. Hopefully Windows will find the drivers and connect to the printer.
Let us know if that works. If it doesn't, you can use System Restore to undo your changes.
Windows 10 update stopped my Parallel (IEEE-1284)-USB adapter cable from working. I assume it’s the 1st September update as I got everything working again after the massive (and annoying) 1607 update.
After much searching I found that older IEEE-1284 cables often do not work with Win10 so I purchased a new one with Win10 drivers. Unfortunately, whenever I try to load the new cable/drivers, the old IEEE-1284 drivers automatically install as soon as I plug the cable in, regardless of the other driver installation.
I checked the box that says do not automatically download updates for drivers, but the ‘IEEE-1284 Controller (Unknown category)’ is already on my system and will not leave! Uninstalling or ‘Removing’ it just means it re-installs itself whenever I plug the cable in.
It'll automatically install 'USB Printing Support Driver' and *sigh* the 'No Printer Connected Driver'. Step 2: Go to Start>Printers and Devices in the 'Not specified' group, make sure you see something like 'IEEE-1284 Controller' or 'Prolific Parallel-to-USB Cable'. Under Uinversal Serial Bus controllers there is an entry 'USB Printer Support' which is the standard driver installed by Windows 7 when an IEEE-1284 compliant adaptor of this kind is plugged into the USB port. Right-clicking on this driver and selecting Properties does not help either as there is no way to configure the adaptor.
I do not want to roll back to pre-update Win10 as this will cause subsequent update problems – and it’s a rubbish, very temporary fix at best. The is no ‘update driver’ option available and ‘properties’ in ‘Devices and Printers’ only has two tabs, ‘General’ (with no options to do anything) and ‘Hardware’ (which only relates to the Brother printer driver and the MS ‘USB Printing Support’ driver (10.0.14393.0) – ‘usbprint.sys’ in ‘System32’ folder.)
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Please help me remove this IEEE-1284 driver, or at least stop it from loading every time.
Cheers,