Default Printer Changing

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

Alan Morris said:
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 said:
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?
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