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I was recently able to enjoy once again allowed to play Windows Admin. It was the default printer for a particular user on our Terminal Server to change.
Sounds simple but it is not.
After some try rumrätseln and I have yet found a solution. The solution is a bit fiddly, but apparently no one else there, if you do not have the user password.

1. We begin with the fact that we log the user in question and ensure that he can not sign up for the time of configuring.
2. We set the printer, the user in the future as the default printer should have at ourselves as the default printer.
3. In the Registry Editor (regedit.exe Under normal circumstances) then we are through to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Windows and copy us the value of the "device" key into a notepad or similar.
4. Now navigate to HKEY_USERS key and chooses when he is selected by choosing File -> Load Structure ... the NTUSER.DAT file from the home of user who is getting set to the default printer.
5. In the window that appears, it is best to give the user name of the user so as to avoid confusion.
6. Well you should, if everything worked correctly, another entry under HKEY_USERS bears the name of the registered under five. For the other points I am assuming that "username" is entered.
7. Now navigate to HKEY_USERS_ \ username \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ Windows key and write there in the "Device" has the value of the one copied below 3.
8. Then one chooses again from HKEY_USERS \ username and unloads on the NTUSER.DAT file -> Remove Structure.

Now, should the user "User" have the new default printer when they log on again. Because someone will say again that we must frickeln in Linux.

We shall at all interventions in the Registry: Beware what you do! And if you do not understand you what to do, makes it very best.

PS: Do not forget that after all is finished, the user must log on again.