Default Printer Selection Changes Upon Restart
SOny Vaio notebook with WIN XP Pro; Brother printer installed as a network printer on another PC on the network, and an HP inkjet connected with that same PC on the network.
I have the Brother selected as the default printer, but if I reset the notebook it goes back to the HP inkjet as the default printer. All is fine if I go to Control Panel and change, but is very irritating to do so every boot up.
I have the Brother selected as the default printer, but if I reset the notebook it goes back to the HP inkjet as the default printer. All is fine if I go to Control Panel and change, but is very irritating to do so every boot up.
Could this be a user rights issue. Do you have administrator rights on your laptop? Even that sounds wrong though, I thought even a limited user could set a default printer.
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I am the only user on the entire network, so administrator of everything.
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Open notepad and copy and paste the following
'Beginning
'-------------------------
Option Explicit
Dim objPrinter
Set objPrinter = CreateObject("WScript.Netw
objPrinter.SetDefaultPrint
'-------------------------
'end
Change Printer Name to the name of your printer, go to "Start", "Settings", "Printers and Faxes" copy the name exactly as it appears but do not include any status messages such as ready. Go to "File", "Save As..." and enter an "default.vbs", be sure to include the quatation marks otherwise windows adds a txt extension at the end.
Copy the file into your startup folder in the Start Menu, each time you logon the printer will be changed to your default printer
This script assumes your printer is connected localy if this is not the case add \\servername\ before the printer name.
example:
objPrinter.SetDefaultPrint
FlyBoy97
'Beginning
'-------------------------
Option Explicit
Dim objPrinter
Set objPrinter = CreateObject("WScript.Netw
objPrinter.SetDefaultPrint
'-------------------------
'end
Change Printer Name to the name of your printer, go to "Start", "Settings", "Printers and Faxes" copy the name exactly as it appears but do not include any status messages such as ready. Go to "File", "Save As..." and enter an "default.vbs", be sure to include the quatation marks otherwise windows adds a txt extension at the end.
Copy the file into your startup folder in the Start Menu, each time you logon the printer will be changed to your default printer
This script assumes your printer is connected localy if this is not the case add \\servername\ before the printer name.
example:
objPrinter.SetDefaultPrint
FlyBoy97
ASKER
Actually, I went back and just reimaged the drive and the problem went away, but I accepted this answer as a good solution, I just didn't happen to need it. Sorry for the delay in closing out.