Bidirectional registry key

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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...
 
Re: Bidirectional registry key


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