I’ve been running Vista on my primary work machine since Day One (much to the chagrin of some of my co-workers). And since Day One I’ve been unable to add any network printers. I know I should be able to add them, other Vista users can add them (although I’m running Ultimate and they’re running Business or Enterprise–but that doesn’t matter), why can’t I? And, since Day One, I’ve had User Account Control (UAC) turned off. Think what you will, I’m no less secure than when I ran Windows XP as a local admin before this, I’m just not more secure than I was.
Well, I finally did a little more googling and found the following well-described answer to my problems, which I’m sharing here because this was a real pain.
If you want to use Windows Vista and you want to be able to print to a network printer, you’re going to have to use UAC. You turned it off? Turn it back on. You’re using the in-built “Administrator†account? Log-out and log-in as a normal admin. Microsoft says you have to use UAC to get a printer installed.
P.S. Here’s a new (admittedly rather useless) feature for Google to implement: search for similar images based on visual differencing, perhaps using peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) comparisons. That way I can upload a screen capture of an error condition and look for similar images. Yes, you could just search for the (hopefully) descriptive error text, but first, there might not always be error text (it ain’t a perfect world) and second, somebody might have written about a screenshot without unnecessarily retyping the error text on the page. I could also search for the closest match to my own picture, and find out that it’s Brad Pitt. That would be nice…
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