Awesome, thanks for the advice, guys. I appreciate the quick help by
everyone.
Ken

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Marshal Graham <[email protected]>wrote:

> Ken,
> I do this in a script. You can do this in a logon script or just put it in
> the Windows startup directory. It could look something like this:
>
> @ECHO OFF
>
> ECHO Setting default printer...
> C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\rundll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y
> /n\\SERVER\PrinterShare
>
> CLS
>
>
> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Michael Lubinski <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> With the group policy client side extensions you can set printers via a
>> policy. There you can also specify a default printer when added via the
>> policy.
>>
>> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Ken Pryor <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This may be a simple fix, but I'm an even simpler guy and don't know the
>>> answer.  We have an XP Pro computer at the office that keeps switching its
>>> default printer for reasons unknown to me. Every account is supposed to have
>>> the same default and I had them set correctly, but now it seems to just
>>> randomly switch to the Microsoft XPS Document Writer from the correct
>>> printer. I don't know what is causing this, but wondered if anyone knew of a
>>> way, through Group Policy or otherwise, to lock the default for all accounts
>>> on the machine.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Ken
>>>
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