Sounds like Xerox is going to have to provide a fix.
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"rockapegibraltar" <> wrote in message
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> There is a known issue with the Xerox Phaser 5500 printer installation
> as this runs a program called PSCOUTEXE.
>
> Everytime I print to the 5500 printer it threw up a program error
> "PScoutExe has stopped working". This is a print monitoring program
> but does not prevent stuff being printed. As this was annoying we did
> the following.....
>
> The program runs as a process so you cannot see it in the TASK Manager
> window unless you have the error message displayed. Once you have it
> all you need to do is to remove the run privelages from EVERYONE (first
> remove inherited properties) and the program does not run when you
> print, enabling you to print and not getting the error message.
>
> Just in case we also downloaded the VISTA driver from XEROX but that
> did not fix the problem!
>
> The issue exisits for both 64 and 32 bit versions of RTM Vista
>