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BUG: DeletePrinter on Remote Printers Causes GPFs

Article ID: 151076

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006

Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface, when used with:
- Microsoft Windows 95

This article was previously published under Q151076

SYMPTOMS

The DeletePrinter function in Windows 95 causes a General Protection Fault(GP)Fault if the printer is opened by specifying a UNC pathname.

Note that calling DeletePrinter on remote printers in Windows 95 is not supported. However, DeletePrinter should fail the call rather than cause a General Protection Fault.

RESOLUTION

Do not call DeletePrinter in Windows 95 on a printer handle that was opened by specifying a UNC path in the OpenPrinter function.

Applications should check the version of the operating system and prevent DeletePrinter from being called when the application is running on Windows 95 and the target printer is specified by a UNC path.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: GdiSpool PRINTERS SPOOLING 4.00 Crash failure Spool32 GPF gp gp-f

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB151076