Wednesday, 25 April 2007

Vista Network Printing UAC - Windows cannot connect to the printer. The specified print monitor is unknown

More vista woes - We've been installing network printers on our Vista machines and on some machines we recieve the following error "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The specified print monitor is unknown". Yet on other machines it works fine. We pinned this down to developer machines, we disable UAC to get Visual Studio to work properly.


Searching the net it became clear that network printers can't install unless UAC is enabled, which requires a two reboots. One to enable UAC and install the printer, the second to disable UAC and continue work in Visual Studio 2003. Frustrating, but there seems to be no other work around.


Neil

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