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How Can I Disable the Keep Printed Documents Attribute on a Printer?

March 28, 2006 Mar 28, 2006 03/28/06
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I disable the Keep Printed Documents attribute on a printer?-- JJ Hey, JJ. You didn’t mention which operating system you’re trying to do this on, but we hope it’s a Windows XP or Windows Servers 2003 computer. Why? Well, on a Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 machine, this is easy; on any other version of ...

How Can I Tell Which Users are Connected to a Print Queue?

January 19, 2006 Jan 19, 2006 01/19/06
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I tell which users are connected to a print queue?-- RE Hey, RE. You know, if your printers are anything like the ones the Scripting Guys are used to working with then it’s easy to tell which users are connected to a print queue: all you have to do is walk into the printer room and see who’s in there ...

How Can I Receive Notification Any Time Something is Printed to a Particular Printer?

November 10, 2005 Nov 10, 2005 11/10/05
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I receive notification any time something is printed to a particular printer?-- IL Hey, IL. You know, one of the Scripting Guys once had a summer job in an organization where the only decent printer in the entire building was kept in the administrative assistant’s office. We can attest, from painful experience...

How Can I Purge All the Print Jobs on a Windows 2000 Print Server?

April 28, 2005 Apr 28, 2005 04/28/05
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Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I purge all the print jobs on a Windows 2000 print server?-- KC Hey, KC. This is one of those questions we hate, not because we don’t have an answer for it - we do - but because we have to temporarily abandon one of the core tenets of the Scripting Guy Way of Life. That tenet - just a second while we blow the ...