Network Printer Control Specifications
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Network Printer Control v1.9Map the default printer by network name in Windows 8/10, just like in Windows 7.
Have Windows default setting of the default printer be network dependent, similar to how the Windows used to work. Network Printer Control (NPC) for Windows 8 & 10, both 32-bit & 64-bit, is an example of a utility I wrote to solve a problem I found myself dealing with.
In this case, when I upgraded the laptop that I use as my main home & work machine from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro, I suddenly found that the way Windows 10 (& Windows 8, apparently) managed the default printer stank. Really stank. Under Windows 7 ( "Device and Printers -> Printers and Faxes" -> "Manage default printers"), I had a default printer set for every network that my laptop had to encounter at my house, my work, and the other places I used the laptop on a regular basis. Windows 10 wiped that out, and replaced it with "Let Windows manage my default printer", which behaves differently in one important and annoying way - it switches the default printer it associates with a given network to the last printer used. In other words, if you mostly use a specific printer when on a specific network, you probably want that one to be the default all of the time. But under the new Windows 8/10 scheme, it you need to use another printer, the act of using that other printer changes the default associated with that network. (This is the kind of thing that makes you wonder if everyone at Microsoft really uses Linux in their day-to-day work at Microsoft.)
View printer spool queue with many additional options compared to standard Windows utility.
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