Printer sharing in Windows Vista

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Windows Vista comes by default enhanced security control – User Access Control (UAC). It’s a good feature but for me is quite annoying as every files deletion and system changes, there will be pop up asking your permission. Arghhhh.. I finally turn it off and everthing turns back to normal, no more POP-UP! But…. today when I tried to map to a network printer, I was being prompted for some error saying:

Windows cannot connect to the printer. The specified print monitor is uknown

Searching through the Net and it looks like lots of Vista users as like me has the UAC disabled and having this problems. If you need to map to a network drive, you will need UAC enabled.

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