Everyone has this problem. They go to work, log into their corporate network, and they use a corporate printer. Then they go home, they log into their home network, and they and they have to change their default printer to a home printer.
Windows 7 makes this process AUTOMATIC through a new feature called “Location Aware Printing”. Depending on what network you’re on, it’s easily configurable to have your default printer change.
- Click START –> CONTROL PANEL –> DEVICES & PRINTERS
- Select a Printer already listed. The Menu will list an item called “Manage default printers”.
- Click “Manage default printers”
Here’s the weird part: This is automatically configured by printers. When you log into a network and configure a default printer, that printer is automatically bound to that network as your default. When you log into another network and configure yet another default printer there, it will remain the default printer only as long as you’re connected to that network.
So a lot of people probably had no idea that this feature was there. It just made their lives easier because the “right printer” was always configured no matter where they went. They probably didn’t even notice that they didn’t have to constantly reconfigure their default printer where ever they went.
And shouldn’t all improvements be that way?
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