Policy to Allow All Users to Install Printers in ISO

[GGBear1]

Is there a way for me to add this in the ISO? I want to enable this for both domain and local users automatically.

Thanks!

 

[Hellbovine]

To clarify the thread for those unfamiliar, a security patch in 2021 made it so that users without administrator rights cannot install printers (link). I uploaded a registry file that has the RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators tweak in it.

Download the file (you can right-click and edit it to see the tweak's filepath), run NTLite, load the image you want to modify, click "Registry" from the left menu, then "Add", choose "Registry files" and select the downloaded file, now NTLite will refresh to show that the registry tweak was added. This method integrates the key into the image, so that it's applied to all users and works out of the box on a clean install.

 

[GGBear1]

Thanks! I will try that.

 

[francis11]

Seems theres' a new reggie considering in never builds.

 

[Hellbovine]

Seems theres' a new reggie considering in never builds.

The screenshot you posted is of the \PolicyManager\ path in the registry and isn't appropriate for users or NTLite to modify in most cases. That's essentially a branch that configures how the group policies work by default and tells other parts of Windows how to handle things related to that tweak. If you look at the right side of the screenshot, the "RegKeyPathRedirect" is telling Windows to put the group policy into that path when it's actively being used, and the "RegValueNameRedirect" is what enables or disables it. My previously attached file uses the \Policies\ path, which is the right method here.

 

[francis11]

And to OP don't change anything - every user have to install their own printersoftware.

 

[GGBear1]

Thanks! I tried both ways anyway and didn't work.

 

[Hellbovine]

If that didn't work, we'll need more information about what the situation is, such as the Windows and version, the exact error message or description of the problem in detail, when the issue first occured, what troubleshooting was tried, screenshots, etcetera.

 

[francis11]

Home and Pro don't have that option unless there tired to an Entreprise logon and installed to that enviroment.
For that - maybe import printerdrivers into a mounted NTL Windows can achieve what you want - but online printers like my own wont work aka Epson on a homenetwork which i don't do during install of Windows. And that's for sure.