Let's say you're running Windows 7 on a computer connected to a local network. There is a shared printer running on a different machine on the network. The drivers for the printer are installed on the remote machine, and the printer is shared. You think that you'll just sit down at your puter, use the Add Printer feature, connect to the remote printer, the driver will be copied over to your machine automagically, and you'll be off and running. But then you see this: Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation could not be completed (error 0x0000007e). The solution to your problem is very simple, and is even available as a Hotfix from Microsoft that will be incorporated into Windows 7 SP1.