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  • Troubleshooting Windows print spooler crashes

    Wondering why your print spooler keeps crashing? This tip teaches you to troubleshoot and repair print spooler problems and issues for Windows networks.Tip

  • Adding a standalone printer to Active Directory with Windows Vista

    A new tool in Windows Vista's Print Management console simplifies the process of listing printers in Active Directory.Tip

  • A Windows administrator's guide to printer management

    This guide examines the printer management issues Windows admins commonly encounter and the tools and tactics that can help optimize printer performance.Resource Guide

  • Avoid print queue overload with priority printing

    What Microsoft Windows admin hasn't dealt with the issue of printer queue overload caused by frivolous end users who tie up network resources for hours on end with large and non-essential print jobs? Here's a simple workaround to this perennial problem.Tip

  • How to index standalone printers in Active Directory

    Occasionally users will need to send a job to a network printer they don't normally print to. Here's how Windows administrators can use Active Directory to create a print queue for a standalone printer.Tip

  • How to create a network printer pool

    You can avoid congestion on a network printer by creating a printer pool -- a group of printers attached to a common print queue, so multiple documents can be printed simultaneously. Here's how to create a printer pool in a Windows Server 2003 environment.Tip

  • Turn any non-PostScript printer into a PostScript printer

    You can give any non-PostScript printer a PostScript front end from a Windows computer. You'll need to download three free utilities: Ghostscript, GSview and RedMon.Tip

  • Missing Active Directory profiles messing up printer management

    An admin discovers that because the previous IT person did not set up the profiles in AD to load the default network printer to all users when they log in, he now has install the default network printer every time a new person logs in.Ask the Expert

  • Restrict printer settings rights

    I have a school based network running a Windows 2000 server with XP sp 2 workstations. Students should only have print rights, but it seems they also get printer settings and preferences. In the GPO settings there doesn't seem to be enough information to turn off these settings. Does Windows 2003 have new admin files that can be added into Windows 2000 with these rights?Ask the Expert

  • Wireless laptops can't access shared printer

    I have one Windows XP Pro desktop and two Windows XP Pro laptops on a Linksys wireless network at home. The desktop is directly connected to the Linksys wireless router and an HP Printer, which is shared. It had been working for a couple of years, but now both wireless laptops can't access the desktop for printing and I get an "Access Denied" error. Despite this error, the desktop can still access resources on both laptops. I know that it is a permissions issue, but I don't know how to resume shared printing. File and print sharing is enabled on all machines and they are all on the same ip subnet. What should I do?Ask the Expert

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