Vista - Default Printer Changing

I have 4 printer drivers installed. Two are network printers (HP5N and
HP4000), and two are Microsoft Document Writers. I keep setting my default
printer to the network printer HP5N, but after rebooting my machine I notice
the default printer keeps resetting back to Microsoft XPS Doument Writer.

Has anyone else encountered this?

yes

this should be fixed after 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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"JHoerig" <JHoerig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4EE177E4-96A2-4E2C-8CAC-372548C76063@microsoft.com...
>I have 4 printer drivers installed. Two are network printers (HP5N and
> HP4000), and two are Microsoft Document Writers. I keep setting my
> default
> printer to the network printer HP5N, but after rebooting my machine I
> notice
> the default printer keeps resetting back to Microsoft XPS Doument Writer.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this?

I have tackled this by simply removing the XPS printer, now my own printer
stays default.

"JHoerig" <JHoerig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4EE177E4-96A2-4E2C-8CAC-372548C76063@microsoft.com...
>I have 4 printer drivers installed. Two are network printers (HP5N and
> HP4000), and two are Microsoft Document Writers. I keep setting my
> default
> printer to the network printer HP5N, but after rebooting my machine I
> notice
> the default printer keeps resetting back to Microsoft XPS Doument Writer.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this?

Basically what Vista was doing was defaulting to the last printer on the
list. One of the posted work arounds was to rename your print driver to
something that begins with a Z. That worked fine for me. I haven't checked
to see if it has been fixed on the RC2 release yet.

"JHoerig" wrote:

> I have 4 printer drivers installed. Two are network printers (HP5N and
> HP4000), and two are Microsoft Document Writers. I keep setting my default
> printer to the network printer HP5N, but after rebooting my machine I notice
> the default printer keeps resetting back to Microsoft XPS Doument Writer.
>
> Has anyone else encountered this?

Running RC 2 (5744) and so far Vista is not changing my default printer back
to XPS Writer.

"Alan Morris [MSFT]" <alanmo@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:eVwKeMN6GHA.1188@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> yes
>
> this should be fixed after build 5722
>
> Bug: "The default printer that was set by APW is changed back to XPS
> Document Writer after system reboot."
>
>
>
> --
> Alan Morris
> Windows Printing Team
> Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
> "JHoerig" <JHoerig@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4EE177E4-96A2-4E2C-8CAC-372548C76063@microsoft.com...
>>I have 4 printer drivers installed. Two are network printers (HP5N and
>> HP4000), and two are Microsoft Document Writers. I keep setting my
>> default
>> printer to the network printer HP5N, but after rebooting my machine I
>> notice
>> the default printer keeps resetting back to Microsoft XPS Doument Writer.
>>
>> Has anyone else encountered this?
>
>