Printer Driver Installation by POST INSTALL

[Klaus_DE]

Hi,

I try to install a HP Printer Driver as part of a large POST Installation.

each machine has a couple (2-3) Printers on the local ports. That is the reason

to do that not with the unattend installation.

I try to install the driver with the command line

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "hp deskjet 960c series" /f "C:\WINDOWS\DRIVERS\hpf960k.inf" /r "lpt1:" /m "hp deskjet 960c series" /z

the installation for the driver works fine. but if I plug the printer on the machine the plug and play hardware detection found the printer and ask again for the driver. If I click on the cancel button the printers works fine.

How can I block, disable or whatever do that the dialog will not displayed

regards

Klaus

[Bilou_Gateux]

Thanks for the command line to automate the installation of the driver. I was unaware of this easy way It runs perfectly for my laser printer connected on LPT1:

Is your printer connected via USB port ?

I have the same problem when i plug my USB Diskonkey the first time on a new installed computer.

I don't have to install any driver but the plug&play mechanism detect new hardware and writes some values in the registry in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\USB branch.

You must make a regshot before and after plugging your new printer and create a new reg file that store the diff.

After you will have to import the reg file regedit /s %path%\PRTplug.reg in your unattended install.

Don't have tried it at this moment for my key due to being too busy

Feedback welcome if it works for you...

[Klaus_DE]

well the driver is depend on the machine connected to the LPT1 as well as to USB

your Idea is not bad. I try it before but the hardware Detection is still running.

I need HELP