Pinting without consent

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Sylvia

I need help......I have several necies and nephpews who
uses my computer when I'm not home. They print
everything...and I mean everytihng. No matter how many
times I tell them not to print crap. I want to know if
there is a way I could set a password on the printer so
they could not use it without my permission.
 
Consumer devices generally don't have this password feature, so you need to
do it on your computer.

Do the other people use the same account as you do? Is the account they use
member of the "power users" or "administrators"? If yes to any of questions,
you need to fix this first.

1. Create a separate, regular (=not admin or power user) account for your
relatives. Or, alternativles, change the account type to be just "regular"
2. Your account and the administrator account need to have passwords which
are not empty and not easy to guess
2. Pause the print queue (Printers and faxes folder, right click on the
printer, pause)

Nobody but administrators or power user will be able to unpause/resume the
queue. You relatives will be able to submit job, but the job will be queued
on the machine and not sent to the device until you unpause the queue. When
you come home, you look at what is in the queue, delete what you don't like,
then resume the queue to let jobs go to the device.

There are other solutions, but I think this is the most convenient to use.
 
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