Bidirectional registry key

[Guest Victor]

I have over 900 print queues and I need to disable the bidirectional support

for all of them. Since I do not want to do this one at a time. :( I'm trying

to find a shortcut. I thought I would find where it's kept in the registry,

export the data, modify the values and import. :)

 

Problem: I can't find where this is kept. i've looked all over the

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print and done multiple searches in the

registry with no luck.

 

Help!! thanks...

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Bidirectional registry key

 

 

"Victor" <Victor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:A027E6AB-83DE-4235-ACE1-69299A5CCDBF@microsoft.com...

>I have over 900 print queues and I need to disable the bidirectional

>support

> for all of them. Since I do not want to do this one at a time. :( I'm

> trying

> to find a shortcut. I thought I would find where it's kept in the

> registry,

> export the data, modify the values and import. :)

>

> Problem: I can't find where this is kept. i've looked all over the

> HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print and done multiple searches in

> the

> registry with no luck.

>

> Help!! thanks...

>

 

I suspect that this setting is printer-specific. In other words,

it's a different key for every printer model. To find out what

it is, export the key for a particular printer (including all

subkeys), then disable birectional printing and export the

key again, this time to a different file. Now use fc.exe to

compare the two files.

[Guest Victor]

Re: Bidirectional registry key

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I did an export with and without the setting. I

used WinDiff to check differences in the reg files. The only differences were

spaces. any other thoughts?

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Bidirectional registry key

 

 

"Victor" <Victor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Thanks for the suggestion. I did an export with and without the setting. I

> used WinDiff to check differences in the reg files. The only differences

> were

> spaces. any other thoughts?

>

 

You probably looked in the wrong place - try HKCU\Printers.

I also recommend fc.exe to compare files.