Windows 10 local Dymo labler takes over as default printer
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Here's a new one.
I watched as a user set their default printer to a network printer, then opened the Dymo labeler software, printed a label and the default changed itself to the Dymo printer.
The Dymo is the only local printer on the machine.
Anyone seen any weirdness like this?
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OK Changed search options in Google and found
http://www.tenforums.com/drivers-hardware/31508-my-default-printer-keeps-changing.html
Windows 10 Fall update introduced a new option in Printers and Scanners (the new version of Devices and Printers - you can't find the setting in the old version in the control Panel, you must use the new version).
Control Panel > Devices, scroll down below your list of devices and see the option called "Let Windows manage my default printer"
Wow - WHO WOULD WANT THIS?
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hehehehe
It's probably something to enable better management through GP's if I had to guess
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They got rid of the change default printer based upon WIFI network you were attached to that was introduced in Windows 7. That function actually made a bit of sense, even if it didn't work in my environment because we have one SSID for every location (does anyone not do that?)
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@Dashrender More specifically, the options says it will change the default based on last used. For most home users this is an interesting change. For an office, it is f[moderated] stupid.
All the "big" accounting packages use various printers for packing slips, invoices, etc. This will wreak havoc on everything in those environments.
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Interesting. look at the comparison.
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Just UG!
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Sure enough - I installed my Dymo printer over the weekend. and it was set as the default.
WTheck is MS thinking..
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@gjacobse said:
Sure enough - I installed my Dymo printer over the weekend. and it was set as the default.
WTheck is MS thinking..
FYI, it has nothing to do with Dymo... it's a new setting that makes the last printer the default for the next print job.
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@Dashrender
I understand. Just so happens, the Dymo was the last printer I used...
