>Steve Silverwood <kb6ojs[ at ]arrl.net> wrote:
>>
>> > >
>> > > My new notebook with Vista Home Premium has Office 2007 that includes
>> > > onenote. The default printer is set to "Sent to Onenote". If I change
>> > > this in the control panel and make my HP inkjet the default
>> > > printer it will only work that way until the machine is rebooted
>> > > then the default printer is Onenote again. How do I make the HP
>> > > the default printer permanently?
>> > >
>> > It's possible that you notebook has some sort of software that sets the
>> > default printer, depending on what location profile you are using.
>> >
>> > For example, ThinkVantage Access Connection, that comes with
>> > ThinkPads, can set your default printer, IE homepage, proxy, VPN,
>> > firewall settings, etc, depending on what WiFi location profile you
>> > are using.
>>
>> There's also Windows SteadyState (URL below) that keeps a system from
>> being changed permanently. Every time the system restarts, it undoes
>> everything that the previous runtime changed. Microsoft came up with
>> it for use on public systems and the like, so that no matter what bozo
>> uses the computer, he can't completely farble it up because when he
>> logs out it gets reset back the way it was.
>>
>> Windows SteadyState:
>>
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.m>> spx
>
>
>It's extremely unlikely that the OP has SteadyState installed without him
>being aware of it, as he would not be able to change or install anything,
>let alone make a default printer stick.
>
>I have used SteadyState to make my auntie's ThinkPad laptop completely
>reliable for her. I made her account a normal level user account, and made
>My Documents for that account into a NTFS Mounted Volume, which is a second
>partition on the drive. Desktop and %appdata% for the same account is
>routed with a Junction Point to a hidden folder on the same partition. This
>allows files and settings to be saved in the usual way while keeping the
>actual system state fixed.
>
>As files can be saved, I stopped the file saving warning notification,
>bubble.exe, from running in the account:
>
>bubble.exe. You can remove that from...
>
>HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
>
>...and moved it to the Admin account's HKCU, as it is needed in the Admin
>account to commit changes. I enabled Remote Desktop on the Admin account,
>and added the service daemon for No-IP.com's Dynamic DNS Update client, to
>give an live updated domain to the laptop, on my No-IP account, so that I
>can Remote Desktop into the laptop at any time, from anywhere, to install
>software and commit changes.
>
>One caveat is that folders cannot be deleted from the Desktop, as the C:\xxx
>address from the Junction Point confuses the Recycle Bin. They have to be
>SHIFT-dragged to the bin, for instant deletion, or the Desktop folder on D:\
>needs to be opened to delete the folder from there.
>
>It's such a great solution for someone that needs to administrate a computer
>for someone else that does not know that much about computers. I ought to
>write a webpage describing this sometime.