Question setting Default Printer (winspool.drv)

[jrmm]

Hello,

We have used the code below at work to set default printers and it seems to work great.

Our boss is asking if this writes to the registry. Outside of using a process monitor to watch the registry I can't think of any way to determine for sure.

I'm guessing that it does indirectly.

Is anyone familiar with this function or have suggestions on where I should start?

Thanks for any help,

John

Func _WinAPI_SetDefaultPrinter($sPrinter)

Local $aResult = DllCall("winspool.drv", "bool", "SetDefaultPrinterW", "wstr", $sPrinter)

If @error Then Return SetError(@error, @extended, False)

Return $aResult[0]

EndFunc

[martin]

Hello,

We have used the code below at work to set default printers and it seems to work great.

Our boss is asking if this writes to the registry. Outside of using a process monitor to watch the registry I can't think of any way to determine for sure.

I'm guessing that it does indirectly.

Is anyone familiar with this function or have suggestions on where I should start?

Thanks for any help,

John

Func _WinAPI_SetDefaultPrinter($sPrinter)

Local $aResult = DllCall("winspool.drv", "bool", "SetDefaultPrinterW", "wstr", $sPrinter)

If @error Then Return SetError(@error, @extended, False)

Return $aResult[0]

EndFunc

It sets the registry key "device" found at

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows