Windows 10: Windows 11 home Ver 21H2 Build 22000.2176, trying to use a network printer on Windows 10...

Windows 11 home Ver 21H2 Build 22000.2176, trying to use a network printer on Windows 10 Home V 22H2 Build 19045.3208. The 11 computer can see the printer on the network when I select by name. When I select next after a few seconds I get Windows cannot connect to printer. Details shows Operation failed with error 0x0000011b. I've restarted spooler on the server. Don't know what else to try. I've been able to use the optical drive on the server to move data files, so I know they are "connected".

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windows 10 VERY slow when trying to open Devices & Printers?

Although I appreciate your offer for suggestions as you can see by the post dates, this thread is a bit long in the tooth. The issue was resolved with one of the updated builds of windows 10. Although in my opinion it's still not as fast as Windows 7, it's nowhere near as slow as it was in summer 2016 when I posted this issue.

Thread issue resolved

 

windows 10 VERY slow when trying to open Devices & Printers?

Hello All
I work in IT and have been trying to figure this slow devices and printers problem for a while now. Being in the enterprise version might be slightly different but I decided to try a few things today.
The new Devices\Printers and Scanners interface introduced in Windows 10 goes and tries to discover everything on the network before letting you take control. For our network that includes hundreds of printers etc. Going to Devices and printers poses the same sort of delay while windows hunts for every device on the machine and network.
I decided to turn on Network discovery from Network and Sharing Center\Advanced Sharing Settings. Once I enabled Network Discovery the Devices and Printers loaded much faster - more like Windows 7 used to. I suspect the initial discovery might somehow be remember in the registry since I disabled Network discovery after opening Devices and printers the first time and even after rebooting the control panel\Devices and printers was quick to load. Turning on File and printer sharing also under Sharing Options also speeds up loading even after you turn it back off again.
I tend to think the newer devices interface caused the problem by using auto discovery for network devices even though it wasn't turned off under sharing options. Likely a bug somewhere that's fixed once it's turned on one time.

Try it and see if it helps in other versions of Win 10

 

Windows 11 Add Printer not working for shared network printer

Hi Carlo,

i am running windows 11 ver 21H2 (OS Build 22000.376)

Mark