Sunday, 7 March 2010

Run add printer wizard as another user

In a Windows 200X system (Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003), to start the printer wizard with another user like administration, go to the command line and execute this:


runas /U:administrator "rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHHelpShortcuts_RunDLL AddPrinter"

2 comments:

  1. Doesn't work on Windows 7 :(

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  2. works fine in Windonks 7.
    don't forget your domain name. like: /U:mydomainname\user.name

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