Disabling auto detect for a printer ???

[DoubleK]

I hath scoured google for a solution and alas have turned to Team Techimo

Problem, I install my custom Lexmark printer drivers which perform much better than the native XP ones but everytime I reboot Windows it redtects and reinstalls its crap causing conflicts with printing and quality with the other printer although it is not active. Only solution is to delete this printer and the printer install with the custom Lexmark drivers work great again.

Question : Is there a way in Windows XP to disable just auto detect on reboot for a printer?

[ShawnD1]

I'm not an expert (or even knowledgable) but it MIGHT be a hardware problem. My computer did strange things like redetect hardware every bootup when the motherboard was damaged. I got a new motherboard (for other reasons) and the problem with redetecting every startup completely stopped.
Make sure the connections are very secure first of all.

How about NOT deleting the printer detected by XP next time, and just installing the better drivers manually for the detected printer? That way, winXP should not need to detect a printer, as it already knows about it.

Sounds to me like it's not treating the printer driver you install as the same printer for some reason, which sounds like a driver fault.

Not XP's fault, for a change.

Cheers
Mick