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

By: BillyR

BillyR — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:15:50 +0000

To add a little more weirdness to this little episode, I have had my printers neworked to my Vista machine from my elderly XP laptop for some time. I have had UAC turned off since early days on my Vista machine after I found that it was more trouble than it was worth. Bought a new Vista laptop a few days ago, and with UAC turned on on the laptop, I networked the printers to it and all was well. Then, after experiencing UAC on the laptop for awhile I decided it wasn’t so bad after all, so turned it back on on the host computer. The printers immediately stopped working and I was unable to reinstall them using any method, as they were invisible to the laptop. Then turned off the UAC on the host computer and was able to reinstall the printers without difficulty. The UAC is now off on the host computer and on on the networked laptop and all is well. You figure it out!

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.