From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: Mobile, Networking, Security, and Troubleshooting
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Setting up and sharing printers
From the course: Help Desk Handbook for End Users: Mobile, Networking, Security, and Troubleshooting
Setting up and sharing printers
- Installing and sharing a printer in a modern operating system is a pretty straightforward task, or set of tasks, depending on which kind of printer and which manufacturer you're dealing with. Some of them require you to run an install program and during that installation program that installs drivers and other software, at some point you'll be prompted to plug in the printer to a USB port on your computer. Others, you plug in and then install the drivers. We're going to do it that way. Windows 10 has two different ways to install a printer, to add a printer, as it says. We'll look at the old way that also applies to Windows 8 and Windows 7 and Vista, et cetera, and that is through the Control Panel. So, easiest way to get to control panel, is to type. And click Devices and Printers. And eventually Devices and Printers will load up. This is going to take a few minutes on this machine, so we'll fast-forward to the future. Because this is connected to my network at the office, Windows…
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