Why does Windows spooler require an administrator account?

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Published on 2010-04-12T23:10:33Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 1:13 UTC
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Does anyone know what changes I might need to make to allow restricted users to print using a printer configured for spooling?

My Windows XP SP3 system currently requires me to use an Admin account for printing if the printer is configured to spool documents before printing. If the printer is configured for direct printing it works for all accounts. This used to work and some months back it just stopped, and I can't pin down why.

The printer, which is an HP PSC 1200 (an old printer) itself is configured for Everyone to have Print authority and my specific (restricted) account to have Full authority, that is Print, Manage Printers and Manager Documents.

My HDD is locked down for restricted users given them only read authority to the entire file system except their data directories, which is how I have run my systems for years.

I assume there may be a directory somewhere that I need to allow users to write to.

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