Shortcut For Printer Properties

[HoppaLong]

I've never understood why your printer properites are buried.

This tabbed window shouldn't even have the "properties" title.

It's the primary app for the printer because it contains all your

settings and maintanence procedures. Image installing a pdf

reader or word processing app and being forced to access the

main screen through "properties" on the Context Menu. A direct

shortcut should be provided on the Start Menu when you install

the printer software.

For XP or Vista here are a couple of command lines that usually work:

rundll32.exe PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /p /n "Your printers name"

or

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /p /n\\machine\printer

If you're running 98SE it's easy enough to download printui.dll and

put it in your windows/system directory. The above commands

still won't work because a dialog box appears about missing

libraries.

Is there a command that will work in 98SE? If not, maybe someone

has created an applet or batch file that will do the job.

Edited January 2, 2011 by HoppaLong