Advice On Troubleshooting Internet Explorer Printing Problems
posted on 10/31/2009
These are some of the troubleshooting steps for printing issue with internet explorer.
Solution One:
1. Hold down the Windows key and press R key. This will open the Run window. Type inetcpl.cpl and press Enter to open the Internet options window.
2. Click on Security tab.
3. Un-check "Enable Protected Mode".
4. Click on Apply.
5. Click on Ok.
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Solution Two:
Right click on the Internet Explorer icon on the desktop screen and choose Run as Administrator.
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Solution Three:
1) On vista, you can go to start(the orb with the windows logo)>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Internet Explorer (No Add-ons)
2) On xp, you can right-click on the IE desktop icon and select Start without Add-ons or go to start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Internet Explorer (No Add-ons)
3) You can create a shortcut on your desktop or Quick Launch bar with the following target path: "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -extoff ( You can do this by right-clicking the desktop and select new and then Shortcut)
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Solution Four:
1. Start Internet Explorer.
2. Point to Encoding on the View menu.
3. Click to select Unicode encoding language.
Solution Five:
1. Hold down the Windows key and press R key. This will open the Run window. Type notepad and hit Enter key to open Notepad window.
2. Copy the following commands and then paste them into the opened Notepad window:
*******Copy only below this line***********
regsvr32 /s jscript.dll
regsvr32 /s vbscript.dll
regsvr32 /s urlmon.dll
regsvr32 /s shdocvw.dll
regsvr32 /s msjava.dll
regsvr32 /s actxprxy.dll
regsvr32 /s oleaut32.dll
regsvr32 /s browseui.dll
regsvr32 /s shell32.dll
regsvr32 /i mshtml.dll
********copy Only Above this line ********
3. After pasting the above commands, please close the Notepad window. Choose "Save" when you are prompted to save the file. Type "register.bat" as the file name and choose Desktop from the left panel as the location to save this batch file.
4. Refer to the Desktop and right click the register.bat file, then choose "Run as administrator" (for Vista) (for XP just double click on this batch file to run).
5. This is a silent batch file which doesn't output any results, however, system files gets refreshed. Once the batch file gets executed.
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Solution Six:
1. Hold down the Windows key and hit R key to open the Run window.
2. Type msconfig in the Run window and hit Enter key. This will open the System Configuration window.
3. Click on the Tools tab. Scroll down till you find "Disable UAC" . Click on that line.
4. Press the Launch button.
5. A CMD window will open. When the command is done, you can close the window.
6. Close System Configuration window.
7. If there is a prompt to restart the PC then choose 'Restart Later' or 'Exit without Restart' option.
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