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SelectDefaultPrinter

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Name: SelectDefaultPrinter
Works on: windowsWindows XP and above
Developer: Matthew Shea
Version: 1
Last Updated: 28 Apr 2017
Release: 19 Aug 2016
Category: System > Hard Disk and CD DVD BluRay Utilities
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Works on: Windows 10 | Windows 8.1 | Windows 8 | Windows 7 | Windows XP | Windows 2000 | Windows 2003 | Windows 2008 | Windows Vista | Windows 2012
SHA1 Hash: 135fdad1125dac5fa43852fce514e13fb06b81e6
Size: 64.97 KB
File Format: zip
Rating: 1.782608695 out of 5 based on 23 user ratings
Downloads: 269
License: Free
SelectDefaultPrinter is a free software by Matthew Shea and works on Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008, Windows Vista, Windows 2012.
You can download SelectDefaultPrinter which is 64.97 KB in size and belongs to the software category Hard Disk and CD DVD BluRay Utilities.
SelectDefaultPrinter was released on 2016-08-19 and last updated on our database on 2017-04-28 and is currently at version 1.
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SelectDefaultPrinter Description

SetDefaultPrinter is a tiny utility to set the Windows default printer. But instead of having users go find the printer list on the control panel, it presents them with a simple dialog box with a list of printers and a Select button.I wrote this utility as part of a desktop computer deployment I was doing at the time. I was a one-man IT department, so any reduction in baby-sitting of users was a good thing. And lets face it, some users need a lot more babysitting than others. We had about 50 people and 10 printers, and I discovered a problem early in the project: when a roaming user logged in to a computer for the first time, the default printer was not always consistent. And in some cases, none of the printers was set as default, which caused many programs to have fits and toss up errors.After the rollout, and any time they used a different computer, users would blindly print their documents, sometimes privacy-sensitive ones, and then realize they didnt know what printer it went to. Some of the users were barely computer literate, so I had to find an easy and consistent way to enable them to select the default printer for themselves.

You can use SetDefaultPrinter any way you choose. I created it to be run from the default Windows user login script so each time a user logged in to a computer for the first time, the dialog box would pop up and force them to make a selection. Its small enough that it can be stored in the .\Netlogon folder and run directly from there. I also created shortcuts for the Desktop, and "pinned" on the Start Menu, so users could run it whenever they needed.SetDefaultPrinter has no installer, only a ZIP file. It consists of a single EXE file and only requires Microsoft .Net Framework. It was developed on a Windows 7 system with .Net 3.5, and Im sure it will be forwards-compatible to newer versions for quite some time, but Im not sure how backwards-compatible it is to older versions.Ive used SetDefaultPrinter successfully on Windows XP, 7, 8, Server 2003, and Server 2008, but you should test it in your environment to make sure there are no unintended consequences.Probable future enhancements: - command line switches to choose the printer - timeout with default selection - invisible operation - option to run as Windows Tray applet.

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