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Cannot access printer’s preferences even when logged in as an admin
LockedI believe that someone permanently sabotaged the printer settings on one of the computers at the office I work at. The computer is a windows pc running windows 2000 sp4. The person suspect not only removed all the permissions blocking anyone from accessing that printer through the security tab, but somehow also disabled the printer properties from ever displaying. Even if I log in as the computer Built-in Administrator’s Account, I cannot access the printer’s preferences page that displays the security tab. I cannot even re-create this scenario on another windows system. I have never seen this before in my 8 years of being in this industry. What’s even more perplexing, is that I recently did a fresh install on this system to avoid it from giving any problems during income tax season. It’s my fault for allowing the user to have administrator privileges but that is solved so that they cannot tamper with the system anymore. But, I need to undo what they did. Is there something in the registry that they modified to disable the printers dialog from appearing? and if so where? I’ve looked all over the net for it and this is the only forum that I know of that I may find some answers. Please help, I don’t want to re-install everything all over again. And P.S. I’ve also re-installed the print driver and named it (copy 2) but it conflicts with the frist one! And it won’t let me delete it because It says access denied. Please Help.