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What determines the order of the printers in the Printer Settings dialog?

Believe it or not, that is the order in which Windows stores them.

Do we know what criteria Windows uses to determine the order?

Neil Blanchard wrote:Do we know what criteria Windows uses to determine the order?

So I messed with this some more and it turns out the order is determined by changes made to a Printer Properties. So if you add a printer, rename a printer, change some value in the printer properties (not all values it seems) then that printer is moved up to the top of the list. (lamesauce )

So what I am doing to get them in the order I want is tweaking the printers names, applying the change and then renaming my printer back to what want it should be. I am doing this in a reverse order where I do the printer I want at the bottom of the list first thru the printer I want at the top of the list last.

Thanks for doing the sleuthing - that is about as kludgy as it could get. If only it was a matter of being alphanumeric order ...