Yes it is the default printer which is the setting I need but I don't understand why it should affect TMG. I wonder if anybody else knows why? Sue On 21/09/2015 15:09, Lee Hoffman/KY wrote: > At 9/21/2015 09:23, you wrote: >> I am pleased that I solved it but wonder why TMG pauses to try and >> connect to the printer even if I don't want to do any printing. Does >> anybody know why? > > Glad you found the culprit. As for why, I can only guess that it is > related to how you have the printer installed and designated within > Windows. I have a number of seldom used printers (label printers, etc) > attached to my computer. Most of these are only turned on when I need > them. But they make no difference to my system. Is the new printer > marked in Windows as the default printer? The installation may have set > it that way, and that may be why it is slowing things down. Other than > that, I have no clue. > > Lee > >
Nope - I don't know why - but I had the same issue a few years ago and it was found to be due to a networked printer which I had set up as default. When not attached to the network the printer could not be found and TMG slowed down. I just set my default to a PDF writer and it resolved everything. Chris -----Original Message----- From: tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tmg-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sue Mayer via Sent: 21 September 2015 15:41 To: Lee Hoffman/KY; tmg@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TMG] TMG running a bit slow Yes it is the default printer which is the setting I need but I don't understand why it should affect TMG. I wonder if anybody else knows why? Sue On 21/09/2015 15:09, Lee Hoffman/KY wrote: > At 9/21/2015 09:23, you wrote: >> I am pleased that I solved it but wonder why TMG pauses to try and >> connect to the printer even if I don't want to do any printing. Does >> anybody know why? > > Glad you found the culprit. As for why, I can only guess that it is > related to how you have the printer installed and designated within > Windows. I have a number of seldom used printers (label printers, > etc) attached to my computer. Most of these are only turned on when I > need them. But they make no difference to my system. Is the new > printer marked in Windows as the default printer? The installation > may have set it that way, and that may be why it is slowing things > down. Other than that, I have no clue. > > Lee > > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
On 9/21/15 10:41 AM, Sue Mayer via wrote: > Yes it is the default printer which is the setting I need but I don't > understand why it should affect TMG. I wonder if anybody else knows why? > > Sue There are a number of default properties that programs can get that are ultimately based on the default printer. If the printer isn't immediately available, when you ask windows for these, it will try and contract the printer to get them, and you have to wait for an error time out, at which point windows will fall back to a 'local default' value. It appears that for certain operations, TMG (or a library that TMG is using) is asking for some of these parameters at these times. Since this only people who turn off their default printer, it may never have turned up with the developers. -- Richard Damon