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EJBsf
Aug 26, 2015Star
Status:
Not a Feature or Product Idea
USB Control Center does NOT automatically connect printer
Every time I turn on the computer or wake it up from sleep/hibernation, I have to dig up the Netgear USB control center, open it, click on my printer and then select connect. Windows 7/64. There ...
kb9fcc
Aug 11, 2016Novice
The auto connect on print is not really a new feature, this is broken, as it used to work fine. I've had 2 generations of Netgear routers (currently using WNDR 3800) and had the Netgear USB Control Center running under both XP and currently Windows 7. Everytime I would send a print job to printer connected via router, the job would start. Now, however, after updating (mistake) the USB CC software to version 1.36 and driver version 1.83.35, I now must open the USB CC and manually connect the printer.