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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 01:11:57 GMT, "AL A." wrote:

and is fast, shared web access works great, etc. Family room computer is
running Win2000, HP932 printer, other computers are all Win98.


Ahhaaa, falling into the HP-trap. HP sell cheap printers because they
use the CPU of the computer as the print processor instead of hardware
processor in the printer. That means the printer hogs your CPU and
couple that with a network and bingo, running through mud.

How fast is the win2000 printer? What else is running in the
background? Anti virus? Any Norton stuff?? All grist for your
hp-crapmill.

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Kind regards,
Jenny and her tribe of survivors.