Prevent Users from Installing Printer Drivers on Windows 8

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Video: Prevent Users from Installing Printer Drivers on Windows 8

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   The first thing that we need to do is to access the security policies

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   The easiest way to do this is to right-click on the Windows button in the lower left corner of the screen.

   

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   Then, select "Run" from the menu that appears

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   In the "Run" window, we need to type in "secpol.msc", and hit "Enter" on the keyboard

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   When the window opens, we need to double-click the "Local Policies" folder in the menu on the left-hand side

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   Then click on the "Security Options" sub-folder

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   On the right-hand side of the window, we need to double click on "Devices

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   Prevent users from installing printer drivers".

   

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   Now, we need to select "Enabled"

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   Then click "OK"

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   Once this is done, we can close this window by clicking the "x" in the upper right-hand corner

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    This concludes our tutorial on how to prevent users from installing printer drivers on Windows 8 computers

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