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An anonymous victim told me this story of strife and suffering.

For mysterious reasons, most programs in her laptop (including, but not limited to Microsoft Office) worked fine while plugged in at the office, but they hung when trying to run them at home. After several perplexing months, the conclusion was that those programs didn’t work because they couldn’t find the network printer. The solution: to set a dummy printer such as PDFwriter as the default printer.