Browse by Tags

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,...

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...

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...

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...