Printer should be offline and Automatic Updates disabled. Othervise
Windows will automatically download drivers from the updates.
1. Download the XP driver for HP Laserjet 1010. (
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=306507&p... ).
2. Go to
Devices and Printers and click the
Add Printer button.
3. Click
Add a Local Printer.
4. Check
Use an Existing Port: LPT1.
5. Select
Have Disk and Browse to the location where you have downloaded the XP driver. Select HP1010U.inf file.
6.
It will give you an error. It is because the local Printer spooler
service has stopped. Go to
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools
-> Services and in the list find
Printer Spooler service and with the
right click select start. Now go back to the window for installing the
printer and click next. It will give you an error that a printer with
the same name already exists. Click cancel, go to Devices and printers
and refresh the page. You should find the printer with the name you
gave. Now right click the Icon, select printer properties and in ports
select
Dot4.
7. Turn on the printer. Windows should now find the driver for it.
8.
When installing the printer on the network you will get the error like
in step 6. Just restart
Printer spooling service on the local machine and
it will work.