Ever been working on a machine that's been locked down and restricted from controlling the printer settings? It can be a real pain to have to log out and log back in as another user to change settings. You can work around these restrictions by combining the RUNAS command with PRINTUI.DLL and the RUNDLL32.
You can get into the inner workings of PRINTUI.DLL to see exactly what you can do with a peek at the help screen:
RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /?
You can check out Rob Van der Woude's page at http://www.robvanderwoude.com/2kprintcontrol.php for a little more detail on the workings. He also mentions a few VBS files (%windir%\System32\*prn*.vbs) that come with Windows XP that can also help when working with printers. I've seen them, looked through them, played with them, but never tried to use them so I cannot say as to whether or not they would help on a locked down machine. But, I have successfully used RUNAS with the PRINTUI.DLL to work with printers on a locked down machine.
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