this should be fixed in build 5722
Bug: "The default printer that was set by APW is changed back to XPS
Document Writer after system reboot."
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"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@techemail.com> wrote in message
news:ubwyF9z5GHA.4304@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> (cross-post added to Vista PF&S)
> "gdock99" <gdock99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1159883264.608324.299650@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
> ...
>> I also tried to find an answer for this but the only thing I found was
>> this
>> group posting.
>
>
> That's because the web portal to newsgroups you are using doesn't
> include the most relevant newsgroup (assuming anybody is using it.)
>
> news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...print_fax_scan
>
> E.g. copy that link to your address bar to have that newsgroup
> open in your Vista newsreader app, Windows Mail.
>
>
> This is the only instance of the string "default printer" on it.
> (In a recent post by CHristopher L. Estep.)
> I'm including the whole thread in case there is useful information
> in it for you in its other posts.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/communities...c-b5610d699ef7
>
> I'm also cross-posting this reply to it so now there will be two. ; )
>
>
> HTH
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
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>
>
>>
>> I installed Vista RC1 on a HP nc9230 and have been using it every day.
>>>From the start I noticed my default printer changing to another
>> printer. I had about six loaded so after a few weeks of VIsta changing
>> the default printer, I started to delete what Vista decided to be my
>> default. It still did not help, my default printer would not stay. I
>> finally had it down to three printers and the default held for a few
>> days but today it is now changed not to the one on the bottom of the
>> list but to the one on the top. When Vista changed my default printer
>> it did not always pick the top or the bottom of the list. I also tried
>> to find an answer for this but the only thing I found was this group
>> posting. Maybe Microsoft will this resolved in the final release but
>> till then I have to keep looking where my print job is going each day
>> and make the correction for the day.
>>
>
>