Comments on: Windows Forces you to use UAC to Add a Printer

By: Someone

Someone — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:21:14 +0000

Dam: Microsoft didn’t fix the bug. Seeing it now on Windows Vista SP1.

By: Mahmoud Al-Qudsi

Mahmoud Al-Qudsi — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:40:37 +0000

User Account Control, the new feature in Windows Vista that prompts administrators to verify that they want to perform each priveliged action.

More info @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control

By: John

John — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:33:29 +0000

Hmm.. would the author care to enlighten us as to what “UAC” means? The solution is not much more descriptive than Microsoft’s original error message.

By: Dam

Dam — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:54:33 +0000

Microsoft have now fixedthis bug, and doesn’t require to re-enable UAC. it isn’t because they force you it is because it was a bug in vista, vista has so many bugs that need to be sorted, i’m staying with XP for a few more years untill everythings soughted

hope it helps!

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By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:02:14 +0000

Thanks!!! It worked great. I just had to have the print drivers available locally vs. being installed from the domain print server.

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By: Computer Guru

Computer Guru — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:47:40 +0000

Thanks for the tip, Joe

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:45:07 +0000

Another way to work around the UAC issue is to install the printer as a local TCP/IP device (you must specify the IP address of the printer this will create a Standard TCP printer port). Vista will commicate directly with the printer (by-passing the print server) and auto detect which drivers to install without the annoying “print monitor” message.

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By: Gustavo Kowalski

Gustavo Kowalski — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:14:53 +0000

What a great turnaround descibed under “Update: A Solution“. Thanks a lot!!!

It not only helps adding prints but also changing printing preferences which was not acessible even with UAC On.

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