Windows 10: How Long Does It Take You to Open Devices & Printers?

You can always create a new Device Metadata key and then a new PreventDeviceMetadataFromNetwork Dword with a value of 1 and see if it helps

 

Takes less than a sec here, going thru control panel, don't see what the big deal is thou...

 

I've put a shortcut to Win10's SETTINGS > DEVICES on my desktop. It displays the same info as DEVICES & PRINTERS and does display instantly, though the info is catagorized so does not offer the "all at once" view that D&P does. I really don't care for the Fisher Price icons in DEVICES but can live with them for the instant display that it offers.

Thanks,

 

Hi OldMike65,

Try clicking on CONTROL PANEL > DEVICES & PRINTERS, then look away for 61 seconds before you can see the results. It is extremely irritating after having Win 8 and below display D&P almost instantly.

Best regards,

 

Like I said earlier, I did that and it takes about 1 sec to view DEVICES & PRINTERS on my Windows 10. *Smile

 

Well for you & others with < 1 sec it does = "no big deal". For us with 90+ seconds, we have to find work arounds just to access printer status, etc. So yes, there are work-arounds, but WTF these should not be necessary...

 

It is hard to imagine troubles, that never occurred to you... My first advice (at the beginning of this thread) didn't really help a lot.

I don't know if this will lead to any solution, but try this program latency monitor and maybe it will show which process is responsible for this delay. It is more often used with audio and video problems, but worth a try...

There are some pro user here, that are more familiar with this program and if it shows anything, we may draw their attention here.

 

Hi Sandra,

By chance, do you have a HP printer?

Reason I ask is that I just reduced the "Devices & Printers" delay in my i7, Win10 PC from 1min 40 sec (today's delay) down to 13 seconds.

I had an older HP laser printer which I just replaced with a new HP laser printer. Before installing the new printer, I deleted the driver for the old printer in Device Management. Suspecting that the driver for old HP printer might be contributing to the "Devices & Printers" delay, I checked it before deleting the old driver and after deleting it. Before the deletion, the delay was 1min 40sec. After the deletion the delay is now 13 seconds.

If anyone else is experiencing a long delay to get the "Devices & Printers" display, do you have a HP printer?

 

Yes, I have aln oldish HP Laserjet P1005! I'm not going to change it though and I rarely use Devices & Printers so I'm not too bothered about the issue. I can quickly access my printers at All Control Panel Items\Printers which is much quicker than using Devices & Printers

 

Hmmm, another HP printer user who has slow opening of Devices & Printers. Wonder if anyone who does not have any HP printer, also has slow opening of Devices & Printers?

Regarding what I underlined in your reply above, I looked in my Win10 control panels on both my desktop and laptop and I don't see a "Printers" option. I only see "Devices & Printers" on both PCs. Could you expand on that statement?

As AndreTen previously mentioned, one can see the modern "equivalent" of Devices & Printers by going SETTINGS > DEVICES. And that is instant for me. But I prefer the looks and display everything at once functionality of "Devices & Printers" so I'm still trying to figure out why it's under 5 seconds for some but can be over a minute for others. Got mine down to about 13 seconds now but shooting for under 5 seconds *Smile.

Thanks for posting your info,

 

The setting All Control Panel Items\Printers was gleaned from the Classic Shell Menu I used. I sent a shortcut to the desktop which works and looks like this:



However, you don't see the printers setting in Control Panel.

You can install a printers shortcut without using Classic Shell. Run the command shellrintersFolder This opens the classic printer folder. Then drag the address to your desktop to create a printers shortcut. See https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html for all shell commands.

 

All my PC's open it almost instantly.
One of the followings might be the cause:

• The program is trying to discover all the devices in your PC and on the networks. Once in a while the Router DNS cache is expired causing the PC to re-discover all devices on the network, this is why to better assign a static IP for each device on the network in the router.
• One of the HD/SSD is corrupted and the program is having hard time to discover.
• Built in bluetooth device. By default, the services for this device is set to "Manual (triggered)". Open the services, set all related bluetooth device services to "Automatic"
  NOTE: If you don't have any bluetooth device then disable these services.

 

Hi Steve C,

Thank you very much for taking the time to respond and even post that picture. I think I'm going to use the SETTINGS > DEVICES for now since that opens instantly for me, and continue to investigate, every now and then when I have time to kill, why "Devices & Printers" is slow to open for me.

Happy New Year,

 

Hi topgundcp,

*1. - I think I need to remain with dhcp instead of a static IP for each device so that when guests come over, I can just give them my wi-fi password and they can use my network without my having to do anything. --- To test if this is my problem, what do I have to do? I previously tried turning off Network Discovery and it did not make any difference.

*2. - I don't have any problems with my C: system SSD or my D: data HDD during my daily use. Also, I do periodic full backups of the SSD and HDD and the backup program has not complained during the backup creations or during the verify followups. I guessing both devices are OK and that neither device is causing the delay.

*3. - During my Googling, I read about bluetooth possibly causing the problem so tried setting both bluetooth entries in Services to automatic and to disabled. Neither had any effect.

Thanks so much for taking the time to help,

 

@mck

It should not affect anything, the router still assigns an IP via DHCP. Assuming you have 10 network devices (network printer, smart TV, IPAD, IPHONE etc...) and reserve an IP for each so if you have a guest login into your network, the router should automatically assign the next available IP except those that were reserved.