MAKE PRINTING EASIER FOR YOUR USERS

How many of your problem-calls from your users involve you saying, "Click on Start, then Settings, then Printers, now pick the printer you want to be the default one, right-click it, select . . . " or a similar phrase? Too many? If this is the case, you can make everyone's life easier with the Default Printer (Defptr.exe) utility from the Windows 98 Resource Kit.

Once the utility is started (it's a single executable file so just double-click it), all you need to do to change your computer's default is select another printer from the given list. The default printer utility then sits back in the System Tray next to the clock at the bottom right of the screen. It's that easy.

If you want your users to have access to the default printer utility from start-up, copy the program to each computer, put a shortcut to it in the start-up folder, and modify the shortcut's properties so that the Run field is set to Minimized.