Question : stopping users / software from changing default printer

I have a program that keeps chaning the default printer.  I'm trying to restrict users and programs from changing the default printer, is there a way I can do this? The users are "Clients" on  Win 2k Citrix (terminal server).

Answer : stopping users / software from changing default printer

Now that is doable!  

The registry entry that changes is this one:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows]
"Device"="Adobe PDF,winspool,Ne00:"

The part that changes is "Adobe PDF" and "Ne00".  If you change your default printer with regedit.exe open in this key, you will see this value change.

So what you could do is set it to the correct printer and then export the file as a .reg file somewhere accessible by all users.  Then create a batch file that runs this command:

reg import

You could also do this without creating the file (using another reg operation), but that's up to you.

Jeff
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