Default printer keeps changing.

[Mark Morrison]

Is there a way to stop Windows XP from changing my
default printer designation. I have a local printer
installed, which I select as the default, and another
printer attached to another computer which is networked.
For some reason the default printer designation keeps
changing to the networked printer. Most frustrating.

Thanks
Mark

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

If your local printer is connected via USB, go into the Device Manager,
scroll down to the USB Controller entries (click on the + to expand the
tree).... doubleclick on each USB Root Hub.... in Power Management ensure
that the option to turn off USB port to save power is NOT checked... do this
for each and every USB port you have.

XP likes to have a printer attached.. perhaps XP thinks of it as a security
blanket...... if the local one is missing, it likes to go looking for
networked ones. Since it then finds a networked printer, but still doesn't
find the local one, it will set the networked one to be default.

Cari
www.coribright.com

"Mark Morrison" > wrote in message
...
> Is there a way to stop Windows XP from changing my
> default printer designation. I have a local printer
> installed, which I select as the default, and another
> printer attached to another computer which is networked.
> For some reason the default printer designation keeps
> changing to the networked printer. Most frustrating.
>
> Thanks
> Mark

Thanks for your reply Cari. Actually I don't have any
printers connected to this computer via USB, Parallel or
good old serial. The one that I want to remain as default
is connected through a SMC Barricade hub/firewall and is
shared from there with another computer. The printer that
Windows keeps switching the default designation to is
connected directly to the other computer via USB and I
only have access to that one through the windows network.

Thanks
Mark


>-----Original Message-----
>If your local printer is connected via USB, go into the
Device Manager,
>scroll down to the USB Controller entries (click on the
+ to expand the
>tree).... doubleclick on each USB Root Hub.... in Power
Management ensure
>that the option to turn off USB port to save power is
NOT checked... do this
>for each and every USB port you have.
>
>XP likes to have a printer attached.. perhaps XP thinks
of it as a security
>blanket...... if the local one is missing, it likes to
go looking for
>networked ones. Since it then finds a networked
printer, but still doesn't
>find the local one, it will set the networked one to be
default.
>
>Cari
>www.coribright.com
>
>"Mark Morrison" >
wrote in message
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>> Is there a way to stop Windows XP from changing my
>> default printer designation. I have a local printer
>> installed, which I select as the default, and another
>> printer attached to another computer which is
networked.
>> For some reason the default printer designation keeps
>> changing to the networked printer. Most frustrating.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mark
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