Q: I have a well-loved NEC SuperScript 1450 printer that worked perfectly well under Windows 2000 Professional. Recently, I built a modified "Bang for the Buck" box, with Vista Home Premium as the OS. When I tried to install my printer, I received a message that Vista had found driver software, but that the PCL6 driver was not compatible with a policy enabled on my computer that blocks NT 4.0 drivers. I've been all over my Vista settings in vain looking for the place to change that setting. Can you help me?—Craig McKay
A: Okay, since a policy is giving you trouble, let's just change the policy. Click Start and enter gpedit.msc to launch the Group Policy Object Editor. Under Computer Configuration, double-click Administrative Templates and select Printers. In the right-hand pane, find the policy named Disallow installation of printers using kernel-mode drivers and double-click it. Set its status to Disabled. By disabling the disallow policy, you enable the use of kernel-mode drivers—twisted! Click OK, close Group Policy Editor, and reboot. The downside of this setting is that a badly written kernel-mode driver can crash your system; that's what the policy was meant to prevent.
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