The printer from the past

One your associates uses a very old printer to process some important company forms. They recently replaced her computer with a new laptop that does not have the required parallel port connection. Which of these would be your best option to allow your associate to use both their new computer and the old parallel-port-connected printer?

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The shutdown interruptus

Your old Windows XP computer has been suffering from an intermittent shutdown problem for a long time, but it’s now occurring at least once a day. You’ve also recently started using more graphically intensive applications, and the abrupt shutdown often occurs when these applications are active. Which of these would be the most likely cause of this issue?

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Garble garble garble

You have an old program that you rarely use, but today you’ve launched the application to grab a quick printout. Unfortunately, the output from your color laser printer is completely unreadable. Instead of normal text, the display is full of special characters, block graphics, and other odd symbols. When you use the Windows Printer Test Page, the printer works properly. Which of these would be the most likely cause of this printing problem?

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Hand signals

You’ve just replaced a broken MiniPCI wireless card in your laptop with a new identical model, but now you’ve found that none of your wireless networks can be seen from the Windows network browser. Which of these is the most likely reason for this problem?

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