hi all, I have no idea whats happening here. I have removed all printers from this machine, I have also made sure there are no print drivers on the machine yet devices and printers still takes an age to load. there are no errors that I can see in the event log. What could this be please?

Hello, Whats the operating system? If its Windows7, please ask in Windows 7 forum and you may refer to this: Devices and Printers page takes forever to load & doesn't show my devices or printers http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproinstall/thread/1584cd60-b06b-4550-a5dd-62eea5754947 Regards, Zhang TechNet Subscriber Support If you are TechNet Subscription user and have any feedback, please send your feedback here.