2. Running the Devices And Printers Troubleshooter
The Devices And Printers troubleshooter is a special,
easy-to-access hardware troubleshooter that can quickly fix problems
related to printers and peripheral devices.
Also known as the Troubleshoot command, this troubleshooter is
available only through Devices And Printers, a new feature in Windows 7 that helps you manage peripheral devices and
printers on the local machine. To open Devices And Printers, select
Devices And Printers from the Start menu, as shown in Figure 5.
Devices And Printers is shown in Figure 6.
Note
USING DEVICES AND
PRINTERS
One of the best features about Devices
And Printers is that it gives you a customized shortcut menu of
options for each peripheral device. For example, by right-clicking
a mouse device and clicking Mouse Settings on the shortcut menu, you can open
the Mouse Properties dialog box associated with the
Mouse item in Control Panel. If you right-click an external
storage device, you are presented with options such as AutoPlay,
Browse Files, and Eject. If you open the shortcut menu for a
computer device (representing the local computer), you can access
many more options, such as Networking Settings, System Properties,
Region And Language, and Windows Update.
To start the Devices And Printers troubleshooter, simply
right-click the device you want to troubleshoot and then select
Troubleshoot from the shortcut menu, as shown in Figure 7.
After you perform this step, the Devices And Printers troubleshooter starts running
immediately, as shown in Figure 8.
