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I took a day off for a conference, and today it is working!! Before my day off, Hkey Current User\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\ was not showing any port information. I did add the delay as suggested above, that seemed to help. I shortened the name, and redeployed the printer with group policy. Between everything, I now get port information and a nice default printer icon with checkmark. Thanks All!

I am definately the less script-savvy tech that you refered to in your post above. The lab I'm trying this out in gets the correct printer using group policy and pushprinterconnections.exe. I'm running Windows 2003 servers and my labs are all Windows XP machines. I was able to get the adm file to work, Thanks! HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\DefaultPrinter gets a string value of DefaultPrinter set to the UNC of the pritner that I want. In my case, this is: \\highschool\Media Lab - RISO The script seems to remove the existing default printer, but not set a new default printer. When I look in Printers and Faxes, none of the printers have the default icon with the checkmark. Although, when I print something, the correct printer does seem to be used. So, I'm not sure if I have a problem or not. Thanks for the help! Ann

Eean, I'm new to this forum. Your custom adm file looks like just the solution I've been looking for. I tried downlading it, with no luck. I can get the zip file, but couldn't read the enclosed file. It looks like I'm the only one to try looking at it so far. Did it post correctly? Or, could I be doing something wrong (Entirely Likely) Thanks! Ann