Registry DataBase : Printers
Restrictions - Thread et Spooler - Signal sonore
 
Top Restrictions
Key : HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \Explorer
Entry : NoPrinterTabs
System : 95, 95+IE4.x, 98, ME, NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 or 1
Default : 0
1 : Disables the General and Details tabs from the printer's Properties... dialog box.
 
Key : HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \Explorer
Entry : NoDeletePrinter
System : 95, 95+IE4.x, 98, ME, NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 or 1
Default : 0
1 : Prevents deleting printers.
 
Key : HKCU \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Policies \Explorer
Entry : NoAddPrinter
System : 95, 95+IE4.x, 98, ME, NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 or 1
Default : 0
1 : Prevents adding printers.
 
Top Thread et Spooler
Key : HKLM \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print
Entry : DisableServerThread
System : NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 or 1
Default : 0
0 : Calls printer servers to tell them there is a printer on the local machine.
 
Key : HKLM \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print
Entry : SchedulerThreadPriority
System : NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : -1, 0 or 1
Default : 0
Determines the priority of the scheduler thread which is the thread used to assign jobs to ports. The priority of a thread determines the order in which it is scheduled to run on the processor.
-1 : High
0 : Medium
+1 : Low
 
Key : HKLM \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print
Entry : JobPrintWhilstSpooling
System : NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 or 1
Default : 0
1 : Enables simultaneous printing and spooling.
 
Key : HKLM \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print
Entry : FastPrintThrottleTimeout
System : NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 to n
Default : 2 000 (2 seconds)
Delay in milliseconds. When JobPrintsWhilstSpooling is enabled, some printers encounter an error if they do not receive data within 15 seconds for postscript printers. To solve that problem, the spooler sends the last sent data a second time when FastPrintSlowDownThreshold is reached. At that time, FastPrintThrottleTimeout has a byte per defined period sent to the printer until FastPrintSlowDownThreshold is reached.
 
Key : HKLM \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print
Entry : FastPrintWaitTimeout
System : NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 to n
Default : 24 000 (4 minutes)
Delay in milliseconds. When JobPrintsWhilstSpooling is enabled, the thread used to assign jobs to ports must be synchronized with the application used for spooling. This entry indicates the period the thread will wait until abortion, current job spooling and handling the next job.
 
Key : HKLM \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print
Entry : FastPrintSlowDownThreshold
System : NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 to n
Default :
FastPrintWaitTimeout / FastPrintThrottleTimeout
Delay in milliseconds. Default is FastPrintWaitTimeout divided by FastPrintThrottleTimeout.
 
Key : HKLM \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print
Entry : NetPrinterDecayPeriod
System : NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 to n
Default : 3 600 000 (1 hour)
Delay in milliseconds during which a network printer is kept in the cache. This cache displays the printer list in the printer selection dialog box.
 
Key : HKLM \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print
Entry : PortThreadPriority
System : NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Default : THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMAL
Priority level of the thread which reaches the printer port.
THREAD_PRIORITY_ABOVE_NORMAL   High
THREAD_PRIORITY_ NORMAL   Medium
THREAD_PRIORITY_ BELOW_NORMAL   Low
 
Key : HKLM \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print
Entry : SpoolerPriority
System : NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Default : NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS
Spooler priority level. Obsoletes PriorityClass in previous Windows NT versions.
HIGH_PRIORITY_CLASS   High
NORMAL_PRIORITY_CLASS   Medium
IDLE_PRIORITY_CLASS   Low
 
Key : HKLM \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print \Printers
Entry : DefaultSpoolDirectory
System : NT, 2K
Type : REG_SZ
Default : %SystemRoot% \System32\ Spool \Printers
Spooler path. If possible, store that folder on a little used drive or partition to relieve the current drive from job management.
 
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Key : HKLM \SYSTEM \CurrentControlSet \Control \Print
Entry : BeepEnabled
System : NT, 2K
Type : REG_DWORD
Range : 0 or 1
Default : 0
1 : Beeps every 10 seconds if a remote printing job fails.

 

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