registry settings for printers

[Peter Moriarty]

I am currently looking at the places the registry records
a user code that is put in a printer driver Printing
Preferences. I have found this code kept in
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\DevModePerUser and
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\DevModes2

Does anyone know why there are two keys?

thanks
Peter

 

[Alan Morris\(MSFT\)]

DevMode2 is for backward compatibility for 16bit applications

Some print drivers, not shipped with Windows, write their own keys with user
preferences.

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Windows Printing Team
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