AppleTalk on a Windows 7 System

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AppleTalk on a Windows 7 System

Several years ago the question of the day was how to configure Windows XP to communicate with AppleTalk printers. The problem was solved very nicely by moving a select number of Windows 2000 system files to the Windows XP machine. I have three Windows XP machines on my home network and they all talk perfectly well to my old reliable Apple Laserwrite Pro 630.

My question is: has anyone found a similar solution on Windows 7??

Sooner or later Microsoft is going to stop supporting XP and I am going to need to upgrade those systems to Windows 7. I actually like Windows 7, but I am really going to miss my LW Prp 630. Has anyone solved the AppleTalk to Windows 7 problem??

AppleTalk Protocol-OTHER, Windows 7

Posted on Jul 10, 2013 3:17 PM

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Jul 10, 2013 3:23 PM in response to dickflanagan

This doesn't appear to be the answer you whated to hear but it appears Apple has dropped support for Appletalk with Snow Leopard.

http://thisdayintechhistory.com/08/28/snow-leopard-released-the-end-of-appletalk /

Allan

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Jul 10, 2013 3:46 PM in response to Allan Eckert

Thanks, Allan, but I am embarassed by my own ignorence. For better or undoubedly worse I am a PC person and I wouldn't know a Snow Leopard from a field mouse. I just know that about four or five years ago someone developed a procedure that involved moving a half-dozen or so Windows 2000 system files (that did support AppleTalk) to Windows XP systems whcih then gave them the same capability.

Since this 2000 ==> XP has worked so well for so long, I was just hoping that someone might have developed something similar for Windows 7. I can handle an answer ot No, but first I have to ask the queston. 🙂

Sub-Question: If not Appletalk, how else can I keep my Pro 630s as productive members of my PC-based Ethernet network?

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