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Default Printer Utility DEFSET Updated |
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Thursday, 03 April 2008
by Michel Roth
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The popular DEFSET Utility from Ctrl-Alt-Del IT Consultancy has been updated
with a host of additional options for administrators. DEFSET is a standalone
Windows GUI tool designed to manage default printer selections on a per user
basis
This tool is suited to users accessing a Terminal Server/ Citrix session and
is designed to retain a user's default printer choice. DEFSET allows the user to
change their default printer during program execution, and writes this
information to an ini file located in the users individual windows directory.
This information is then used to remember the selected the default printer for
later sessions.
The program should
be run at startup, allowing a user to set their default printer. The program can
then be minimised to the system tray, and opened at any time to change the
default printer. If a new printer has been added during the last access of
DEFSET, the program will refresh the set of available printers, allowing a user
to select it from the list.
This utility was written for environments
where the printer list may change due to system policies or location settings,
and the retention of printer choice is regularly lost. Ideally the program
should be placed in the startup folder of a user's profile to ensure it is run
at the beginning of a session. DEFSET uses a file, DEFSET.ini which gets stored
in %windir%\windows, or %userprofile%\windows if the user hasn't got a home
directory defined. If DEFSET is run on login or start up, it will read
DEFSET.ini to make sure you get the same default printer each time.
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