These have been deleted on a workstation here at the office and I cannot for the life of me find out how to reinstall them. Any Suggestions? TIA Dave

What exactly is missing? Parallel port? Serial port? And do you see this in Device Manager? A little more information would be good. Life's more painless for the brainless.

Local Port and Standard TCP/IP Port

Just use the add hardware to readd the LPT port. TCP isn't a hardware device; it's a network protocol. Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

Correct, but the TCP/IP Port would be the more important of the 2. The driver is installed and functioning (tcpmon.dll) according to depends.exe but I cannot access it through add port. I have googled to no end and all I found was this fix: (which did nothing for us) *** FIX: You'll need to make sure that the following files still exist in the %windir%\system32 directory: tcpmon.dll tcpmon.ini tcpmonui.dll tcpmib.dll If those files are then then copy the lines below to a file with the extension *reg. (name doesn't matter). launch it and it will re-add the monitor entries to the registry. Restart the computer and then you should be able to add standard tcp/ip ports again. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors\Standard TCP/IP Port] "Driver"="tcpmon.dll" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Monitors\Standard TCP/IP Port\Ports] "LprAckTimeout"=dword:000000b4 "StatusUpdateInterval"=dword:0000000a "StatusUpdateEnabled"=dword:00000001

Are you trying to add a printer using a TCP/IP port? What you're saying really doesn't make sense. Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

How to restore missing Standard TCP/IP Port type for adding local printers in XP There's was problem after running the above registry edit and he found the bug to be "elsewhere" without any elaboration. http://help.lockergnome.com/windows... i_XpUser