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Classic Shell 4.2.1 on Windows 7 Enterprise

Hi!

I think I may have run into what could be a possible bug for Classic Shell:

I've added the Settings->Printers menu to Classic Shell. I have a network printer installed from our File Server on my workstation.

If I go to Settings->Printers and right-click "open" and open the Printers window, I can see all my printers. If I right-click->Delete a network printer (See file A.png in attachments), I'm prompted with B.png (See attachments). It proposes to delete the printer from the server itself and if I click it, then it does delete the printer on the server for all users. (I'm domain admin).

However, if do the same thing using the Devices and Printers (See attachment C.png) and I try to delete the same printer there, it only removes the printer from my workstation and leaves the one on the server intact for all users.

Could this be a bug with Classic Shell? I'm able to replicate this issue on other workstations as well. (I haven't tried with a non-domain admin account...). Is this possible that Settings->Printers might bypass Windows security at some point? It shouldn't happen.

Thanks,

Chris

This is only a difference in how the classic Printers folder operates vs how Devices and Printers works. Both folders are part of Windows, even the old Printers folder which you access from the Classic Shell Start Menu. Classic Shell only lets you access the old Printers folder, it isn't really part of Classic Shell. Windows tries it best to hide the old Printers folder and makes you use Devices and Printers which has some functions missing that only the old Printers folder had.


Regardless of whether Classic Shell is installed, you can open the classic Printers folder from the Run (Win+R) dialog too by typing:

shell:PrintersFolder

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Thanks GauravK for your quick response!

Yeah, that's what I thought: I had my doubts that Classic Shell would provide the end users with its own Control Panel windows.

Quite strange thought that using the classic Printers folder, I can't locally remove a Network Printer without deleting it from the server...

Thanks for the great product by the way!