Print notification (Windows XP)

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Ever since one of my clients has installed Windows XP and they print to a local printer they get a notification after each print job that it has been completed. It is nothing more than a nuisance but I would greatly appreciate it if someone could tell me how to shut this option off.
Thanks in advance.
Glenn

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I do NOT think it is a Windows XP issue, but a Printer Driver issue. Check ALL of the setting and options of the driver.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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I do NOT think it is a Windows XP issue, but a Printer Driver issue. Check ALL of the setting and options of the driver.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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A high percent of times if I have problems with any hardware device driver comes to mind as the #1 answer, but by default Windows notifies a user with a popup message that their print job has been completed on the printer. This setting controls that behavior. Open your registry (Start/Run/Regedit) and find the key below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPrintProviders]

Value Name: NetPopup
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, named “NetPopup” and set it to equal “0” to disable notification or “1” to enable it. Restart the printer spooler service or restart Windows for the change to take effect.

SMBP

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“but by default Windows notifies a user with a popup message that their print job has been completed on the printer”
Sorry this is NOT default on any of my computers or any I support.

May be a IT setting using a domain network.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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“but by default Windows notifies a user with a popup message that their print job has been completed on the printer”
Sorry this is NOT default on any of my computers or any I support.

May be a IT setting using a domain network.

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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A high percent of times if I have problems with any hardware device driver comes to mind as the #1 answer, but by default Windows notifies a user with a popup message that their print job has been completed on the printer. This setting controls that behavior. Open your registry (Start/Run/Regedit) and find the key below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPrintProviders]

Value Name: NetPopup
Data Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)
Value Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled)

Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, named “NetPopup” and set it to equal “0” to disable notification or “1” to enable it. Restart the printer spooler service or restart Windows for the change to take effect.

SMBP

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This sounds like an old printer setting that was around on NT4. Somewhere in some sub-tab option, there is an option that enables a confirmation after printing. You need to uncheck that option. The printer I have here is an old portable – so I can’t point you exactly where.

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I trolled around in every tab and subtab and button behind Printer Properties I could find thinking there would be some gui box but I couldn’t come up with one–I could well have missed one–I feel sure the regedit will work. The “0” at the DWORD value at the key above will disable the notification and a “1” will enable it in Win XP I believe.

SMBP

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I trolled around in every tab and subtab and button behind Printer Properties I could find thinking there would be some gui box but I couldn’t come up with one–I could well have missed one–I feel sure the regedit will work. The “0” at the DWORD value at the key above will disable the notification and a “1” will enable it in Win XP I believe.

SMBP

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This sounds like an old printer setting that was around on NT4. Somewhere in some sub-tab option, there is an option that enables a confirmation after printing. You need to uncheck that option. The printer I have here is an old portable – so I can’t point you exactly where.

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There are Windows settings that controls notifications from both local and remote printers, they’re under

Start > Settings
right-click Printers > Open
File > Server Properties

Does that help?? (Oddly, although I have Network pop-ups enabled, I don’t get any pop-ups back from the server, so I’ve never noticed this “feature.”)

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There are Windows settings that controls notifications from both local and remote printers, they’re under

Start > Settings
right-click Printers > Open
File > Server Properties

Does that help?? (Oddly, although I have Network pop-ups enabled, I don’t get any pop-ups back from the server, so I’ve never noticed this “feature.”)

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Thank you to all who replied. The answer was in the server properties under file in the printers.
Thanks again.

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Thank you to all who replied. The answer was in the server properties under file in the printers.
Thanks again.

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