Disabling Printing Notification Dialog Boxes in Windows

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WARNING: If you use Registry Editor incorrectly, you may cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that you can solve problems that result from using Registry Editor incorrectly. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

Use the following steps to disable Printing Notification network dialog boxes:

NOTE: This procedure must be performed on the server that is sending the dialog box. The only way to disable a dialog box on a client is to disable the messenger service on the client. Disabling the dialog box from the server will affect all clients.

Windows NT 3.51

1. Start Registry Editor.
2. Locate the following subkey:

   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Providers

3. From the Edit menu, click Add Value.
4. In the Value Name box of the Add Value dialog box, type NetPopup.
5. Select REG_DWORD for the Data Type, and then click OK.
6. In the Dword Editor dialog box, type 0 (zero) in the Data box, and then click OK.
7. Quit Registry Editor.
8. Quit Print Manager if it is running, and then stop and restart the Spooler service from the Services portion of Control Panel so the new setting will take effect.

Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000

1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Printers.
2. From the File menu, click Server Properties.
3. On the Advanced tab, click to clear Notify when Remote Documents are Printed.
4. Stop and restart the Spooler service from the Services portion of Control Panel so the new setting will take effect. In Windows 2000, start and restart the Spooler service from the Services snap-in under Administrative Tools.

NOTE: If the print notification is turned off and the printer is directly connected by means of a parallel or serial cable, error messages will appear on the server. While the error is displayed, printing will not resume to the printer, even if the cause of the error is cleared from the printer. Someone must log on to the server and click Retry or Cancel in the Error Message dialog box. This does not affect network-connected printers.