Is there a dropdown menu arrow in the printer/properties/details bar by the network address, if so you should be able tochoose LPT1 from the menu, if this is not the issue it could be that the port is just captured. Hit the end capture to disassociate this from the network port. if this does not work you could go into the bios settings on the note book and change the printer port setting to epp or ecp to force windows to reload the printer port. Hope this helps

Kerry