I have networked my son's laptop (running xp home) to our home pc (running xp xp media center) and shared the printer. However, when my son prints from his laptop, the item appears in the printer spool but doesn't actually print. This may have something to do with the fact that when I run the home network setup wizard on the home pc and enable file and printer sharing, it doesn't stay enabled. Can anyone help please? 1 person needs an answerI do too

Could it be something as simple as clearing the print queue of stuck documents? Try it, open a Run window (Windows key+R), type or copy and paste cmd /k net stop spooler && net start spooler (note the 8 spaces) and press Enter. Close the cmd prompt window.