That might help! But, will it make Image Writer go away forever? Or will it just get re-added the next time an Office update gets installed?
-----Original Message----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 12:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Office 2003 Image Writer Printer Hate that thing. cscript //B c:\windows\system32\prnmngr.vbs -d -p "Generic" as a machine.bat file. Replace 'Generic' with whatever printer name you want to nuke. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 12:24 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Office 2003 Image Writer Printer > > Office 2003 comes with an Image Writer virtual printer. This thing is > driving me nuts because a bunch of our systems periodically revert to > making this printer the default. We select a different printer (i.e., > their actual, physical printer) as the default, but later the Image > Writer is the default again. > > As best I can tell, this happens when Office updates are installed. > > Is there a solution to this? Preferably one that can easily and > centrally be deployed to hundreds of machines? And has the person been > horsewhipped who wrote the code that makes this printer repeatedly > become the default? > > > > John Hornbuckle > MIS Department > Taylor County School District > 318 North Clark Street > Perry, FL 32347 > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
