I was logged into a system using an ordinary user account under Windows XP and needed to create a new printer port so that I could print to an HP printer, which was on the network to which I was connected. The user account doesn't have access to add network printers, but I had a lot of applications open with ongoing work and didn't want to have to save and close everything I was working on, log off, login as the administrator, log off, log back in under the user account and reopen all the applications and files, especially since I only had a few minutes to get a document printed prior to a meeting.
Fortunately, I was able to find information on how to easily resolve my problem at Command Line Printer Control in Windows 2000 / XP. All I had to do to add a printer from the administrator account while still remaining logged into my user account was the following:
- Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:\WINDOWS\system32.
- Right-click on cmd.exe while holding down a shift key, then select Run as.
- Select "The following user", put in the userid for the administrator account for the system, e.g. SystemName\administrator, for user name and its password, then click on OK.
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At the command prompt window that opens, enter the following command:
RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /il
That will run the Add Printer Wizard from the administrator account, allowing you to add a printer port.
Note: The capitalization of PrintUIEntry is important.
If you don't use PrintUIEntry, but, instead used
printUIEntry, you would get the error message below:
Error in printui.dll
Missing entry:printUIEntry
The /il parameter is also case sensitive.
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