My Hp touch smart with Windows 7 premium randomly loses all printer drivers.

My new system will Randomly drop all  printers.   I don't think it matters if its wired or wireless through the router.  when I  try to print it says that there is no printer installed.   When I go and look in the control panel there are no drivers there.   Sometimes I can close the program (usually quickbooks) ,and when I reopen the software it will work fine.  Other times I have to close everything and reboot.   Often I will have printed something just a few minutes before with no problems and then all of a sudden nothing.  I don't have time to shut down the computer and restart it every third time I want to print something.   I don't know how the drivers disappear from the controll panel an suddenly reappear on restart.  I have also had an error that there was no printer spooler whenI tried to reinstall after tehy were lost the first couple of times. 
Thanks for any help.

just to verify.   My main printer is connected by USB to my computer and the driver still disappears when this problem occurs.

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