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Windows 7 and printer driver path

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is there any way that i can tell windows 7 to also look for printer drivers at \\sername\drivers\ ?
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Are you hinting towards an answer file for SIM? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744361%28WS.10%29.aspx
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i would like it beyond the sysprep, so after the sysprep lets say two months down the road a user plugs in a printer and by default windows will look for the drivers locally, but i want it to also look for the drivers on a server a tell it to.
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You can prepare a netwrork map drive for the UNC you specified,,,

And tell in printer wizard to look into that drive.

to prepare a network drive on my computer screen goto tools- map network drive....browse for UNC and create a virtual network mapped drive.

I guess it should help
Aj8787, I think he wants a shoot and forget kind of deal, rather than a manual process. Unless there's a registry path to the drivers path I can't see any other solutions than the ones provided.
Well network drives in windows 7 are permanent drives and stay till you manually remove them...

so he can always include them in the search everytime he wants...Plus network drive show path with the drive letter so yeah not a temp solution i guess,.

Registry path is bit advanced but promisable
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