Printer Wants To SAVE Instead Of Print

When you click print, the print dialog box pops up, DO NOT just OK it, read the information on it. If there is a check box marked “Save to File” then uncheck this, Then look to make sure that it is printing to your printer, it sometimes will select “One Note” or ‘Fax” which will not send it to your printer. Once you check that all is right, THEN OK the print. Usually, after doing this once, is all it takes to ‘fix’ the issue and the next time you just need to glance to make sure it still is OK, but it should default to your preference that you just selected. Once in a while, it might go out of wack, but it is easily ‘fixed again the same way.

If this is a registry corruption, even if caused by malware, you can try a System Restore to a date well before the problem started. This will restore system files and registry to the date before the problem started so it should fix it for you. After completing the system restore, run Malwarebytes to make sure that there is not something lurking behind the scenes that caused the problem and might again. Post the log back here for review. Then do a manual Windows Update since you might have lost a few updates when you did the system restore.