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Disable Printer Auto Install (WinXP)

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by soeki

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hi, guess the Topic says a lot about my Question.

One of my clients has a small 12-hosts network and is running XP... they asked me to look out why the shared printers keep Auto Installing on every host in the network. I was shocked, I never stopped to wonder why XP does this, cuz I guess I did'nt care, I know this is provably something easy to do, I just started to search how to do it on the knowlegde base but thought about dropping it here. =)

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by tbragsda

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HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced+NoNetCrawling

change the value from 0 to 1

Nice of them to add this, but should be off by default... if you ask me, and they never do.

TBR

by soeki

Quote: 'Go into My Computer, Pick Tool then Folder Option. Click On the View tab. At the top under Files and Folders, uncheck "Automatically search for network folders & Printers". '

Now, what I do wonder is why don't they work?
I mean, I think they wouldn't mind to use the "Autodetect" feature if it had worked. you go to the printers folder and see 12 automatically installed printers... but none works and if you try to send documents to them you'll only get errors. It is a scary thing to open a Printer folder and watch 20+ printers (Auto + Manual installed)

LOL.

by tbragsda

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You put printers in locations based on work that a group may do. Say you have a finance group printing checks. Do you want everyone able to print to that? Or the big boss chooses one of the 12 printers, prints the confidential document to the wrong one. This is a problem waiting to happen.

Plan a printer setup and impliment. Its part of the net admin job. Auto install may work in a very small enviroment, but not much use (or a problem) in even a small network.

by teng.stteng

I have a question. How do you force Win XP OS to create an Auto Install Printer? I found that it is the only way that the correct computer name is displayed on their Test pages.

Thanks
stteng

by teng.stteng

I have a question. How do you force Win XP OS to create an Auto Install Printer? I found that it is the only way that the correct computer name is displayed on their Test pages.

Thanks
stteng

by teng.stteng

I have a question. How do you force Win XP OS to create an Auto Install Printer? I found that it is the only way that the correct computer name is displayed on their Test pages.

Thanks
stteng

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