- default printer for local system account
- Posted by E-Double on November 16th, 2005
is there some what to change/modify the default printer that the local system
account uses to print jobs ? on a WinXP machine there are several batch jobs
that (only) run under the local system account, but for some reason the print
output for these jobs do not go to the current user's default printer but
rather try to print out to the adobe pdf printer ( which was the only printer
installed when the machine was received ). is there some way to edit or
modify this to send these jobs out to the windows xp/user default printer (
located on the LAN ) ? tia ...
- Posted by chrispsg on November 16th, 2005
Log on to the computer as the local adminstrator. I bet the pdf printer is
set as the default printer. Change the default to the user's default
printer.
psg
"E-Double" <EDouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:631E5C40-9F04-4743-B12C-84DFBAA24C1B@microsoft.com...
> is there some what to change/modify the default printer that the local
> system
> account uses to print jobs ? on a WinXP machine there are several batch
> jobs
> that (only) run under the local system account, but for some reason the
> print
> output for these jobs do not go to the current user's default printer but
> rather try to print out to the adobe pdf printer ( which was the only
> printer
> installed when the machine was received ). is there some way to edit or
> modify this to send these jobs out to the windows xp/user default printer
> (
> located on the LAN ) ? tia ...
- Posted by Mak on November 16th, 2005
examine the following:
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Device
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Printers
DeviceOld
and compare to user's:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
Device
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers
DeviceOld
(you may want to load desired user's hive first)
"E-Double" <EDouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:631E5C40-9F04-4743-B12C-84DFBAA24C1B@microsoft.com...
> is there some what to change/modify the default printer that the local
> system
> account uses to print jobs ? on a WinXP machine there are several batch
> jobs
> that (only) run under the local system account, but for some reason the
> print
> output for these jobs do not go to the current user's default printer but
> rather try to print out to the adobe pdf printer ( which was the only
> printer
> installed when the machine was received ). is there some way to edit or
> modify this to send these jobs out to the windows xp/user default printer
> (
> located on the LAN ) ? tia ...
- Posted by E-Double on November 17th, 2005
cool, thanks guys - i will try those ideas and post a reply.
e.
"Mak" wrote:
> examine the following:
> HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
> Device
>
> HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-18\Printers
> DeviceOld
>
> and compare to user's:
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows
> Device
>
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers
> DeviceOld
>
> (you may want to load desired user's hive first)
>
> "E-Double" <EDouble@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:631E5C40-9F04-4743-B12C-84DFBAA24C1B@microsoft.com...
> > is there some what to change/modify the default printer that the local
> > system
> > account uses to print jobs ? on a WinXP machine there are several batch
> > jobs
> > that (only) run under the local system account, but for some reason the
> > print
> > output for these jobs do not go to the current user's default printer but
> > rather try to print out to the adobe pdf printer ( which was the only
> > printer
> > installed when the machine was received ). is there some way to edit or
> > modify this to send these jobs out to the windows xp/user default printer
> > (
> > located on the LAN ) ? tia ...
>
>
>
- Posted by E-Double on November 17th, 2005
did both things and it worked like a champ - thanks guys !!
"E-Double" wrote:
> is there some what to change/modify the default printer that the local system
> account uses to print jobs ? on a WinXP machine there are several batch jobs
> that (only) run under the local system account, but for some reason the print
> output for these jobs do not go to the current user's default printer but
> rather try to print out to the adobe pdf printer ( which was the only printer
> installed when the machine was received ). is there some way to edit or
> modify this to send these jobs out to the windows xp/user default printer (
> located on the LAN ) ? tia ...
