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Restricted access to printer properties (For All Users in Win 98/Me).

This setting can hide the “General” and “Details” tabs from a printer’s properties dialog box, which can be called from the right-click menu of a printer.

Tweak for : Windows 98, Windows Me

Description:

Upon right-clicking the printer configured on your system will show the “Properties” option, which in turn calls the printer’s properties dialog box. The properties dialog box of a printer is used to configure the printer port, resolution, paper size, fonts etc.

If this setting is enabled, the “General” and “Details” tabs are hidden in the printer’s properties dialog box, thus you can’t change specific settings for your printer. Since the “Details” tab allows configuring the printer settings, therefore there may be the need to remove the access to it for not experienced users.

For this, go to Start > Run menu, enter “regedit” and navigate to the registry path listed below. You can create a DWORD value “NoPrinterTabs”, if this value does not exist.

Now, right-click and modify the value to “1” which can restrict access to specific printer properties. However, if you want to enable the hidden tabs back, change the value to “0” or delete the value.

The changes take effect after a restart or logoff.

NOTE:
The restrictions will apply on all user accounts created on your system.

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Hide General and Details Tab in Printer Properties.reg

The ".reg" file can hide the "General" and the "Details" tabs in the Printer's Properties dialog box.

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Show General and Details Tab in Printer Properties (Default).reg

The ".reg" file can show the "General" and the "Details" tabs in the Printer's Properties dialog box.

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Registry Entry Details:

Registry Entry 1 :

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\]

Key Type :

Local Machine

Value Name :

NoPrinterTabs

Data Type :

DWORD (DWORD Value)

Enabled Value :

Disabled value :

Other value :

Value Action :

Add an Entry

Steps ScreenShots:

Apply registry settings according below given steps of screenshots with related changes.

The "General" and the "Details" tabs are not visible in the Properties dialog of the printer installed.

The "General" and the "Details" tabs are visible in the Properties dialog of the printer installed.

First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".

Second, go to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\] key, right-click in the open area to create a new DWORD value with the name "NoPrinterTabs".

Third, right-click on the "NoPrinterTabs" DWORD value and click on 'Modify'.

Finally, enter the value "1" in the text box and click on 'OK'.