Re: Hp Print And Scan Doctor Utility
Valorie Welker
HP Print and Scan Doctor is a free tool for Windows to help resolve printing and scanning problems.HP Print and Scan Doctor has a number of additional tools and features to help you resolve printer issues or find information about your printer.
First off, It is not a glitch with the computer. It could be some glitch with the Operating system after installing software and updates, that could have corrupted some files specific to this utility and preventing it from working correctly. The updates happen in the background without your knowledge and could have caused this. PSDR may not be getting installed correctly.
This could happen to any computer and several times it has been suggested to customers to backup their files and perform a system recovery to factory settings and the issue has been resolved successfully. This has been done only as a last resort if nothing works.
The PSDR is a tested and trusted utility that is downloaded every day by millions of customers and hence is hosted on the support site. It fails only on a handful of computers that could have an operating system glitch which gets corrected usually with a complete operating system reinstallation.
Please check out step 7. Please try performing all the steps only if you have issues with scanning. However, this should be done only after downloading the print and scan doctor utility from the link given above. Please check if it corrects the situation before trying the steps from the second link.
Hope this helps. Let me know how this goes. I genuinely hope the issue gets resolved without hassles and the unit works great. Please reach out for any issues and I'll be there to assist you.
I currently have no problems printing or scanning. But I still have the same issue with Print and Scan Doctor. For printing it checks out OK quite quickly and says there are no problems. For scanning it stops every time at "Windows (WIA) Scan" and does not complete the diagnostics. There is no error message. Windows Task Manager indicates at this stage that PSDR is not doing anything (CPU usage mostly zero), so it really has stopped.
Hope this helps. Let me know how this goes. I genuinely hope the issue gets resolved without hassles and the unit works great. Please reach out for any issues and I'll be there to assist you.
I then deleted every instance of HPPSdr.exe that I could find in my system. ( I could not uninstall it using the uninstall command in "Programmes and Features" in Control Panel as you suggested as it was not listed there as an installed programme).
I reviewed the post. Excellent job on troubleshooting. Hats off to you for a job well done. The Print and scan doctor sometimes does not get installed and it is a utility that runs on your computer as an executable file. So Please try these steps and let me know how this goes
The steps 1 to 6 that you list in your response are the same things that I did before my last email to you in order to delete all instances of HPPSDr.exe on my computer. Nevertheless, I tried it all again, but I still experienced teh same problem.
You say I should "install" Print and Scan Doctor. I am not entirely sure what you expect to happen. On my Windows 10 system, if I start with no copies of HPPSdr.exe on my system, download it from your FTP site into my Downloads folder, then "Open" or "Run as Administrator", before running it puts a copy of itself into C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\Diagnostics\PSDR, together with an icon file PSdr.ico. It also puts a shortcut icon onto the desktop (although a default microsoft icon, not its own). However, it does NOT subsequently appear as an installed programme in Control Panel>Programs and Features. Not does it put an entry into the start menu (at least, I cannot find it).
This is set as my deault printer and has the name "HP Envy 5640 Series (Network)" when it appears in Control Panel>Printers and Devices, or in the list of printers available within applications (e.g. in Microsoft Word) or in PSDR. In addition I have a number of virtual printers including HP ePrint, Microsoft PDF writer, Send to OneNote, etc. When I run PSDR , then at "Choose your product" its shows three printers:
Number 1 is the one I have been checking. PSDR communicates with it, but fails to complete the scan checking as I have said. If I choose 2 or 3 its says that it cannot communicate with them. which is not surprising. I think number 3 is somehow left over from a previous installation of the printer software etc - it does not appear in Control Panel>Printers and Drivers or in the list of printers in any application, only in PSDR. Could this "ghost" printer be causing the problem? How can I remove it?
Sorry for the continued correspondence. I am happy that I can print and scan ok, but a little disappointed that your diagnostic tool does not run successfully. Any other suggestions, or shall we give up?
Great response and brilliant effort at analyzing the issue. Hats off to you on that score.:) The print and scan doctor is a utility that does not get installed on the computer. It is also not computer specific. It is a utility for windows that is downloaded by millions on the support site and a fully working tool.
If you could print and scan well and the utility does not work after having tried all the steps, then it may be some kind of Operating system glitch on this specific computer that is preventing it to not run correctly.
The print and scan doctor does not install on the computer and runs as a utility to check print and scan related issues. So if it is not running correctly on this specific machine and you want to run it, please backup your files and reinstall the operating system again to factory settings.
I have recently purchased an HP Deskjet 2630. As part of the software downloads there was the print & scan doctor. I have experienced some issues with printing and tried to use the print & scan doctor to resolve this. I get as far as the searching for product screen and it just disappears. I am using this on Windows 10. Any help will be appreciated
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