Rename Printers and Faxes.
This setting can be used to change the name "Printers and Faxes" to the name of your choice.
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Description:
The text printers and faxes can be changed with a customized text that you what to make appear in its place. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, right-click and modify the expandable string value localizedstring to the name that you want to appear in place of printers and faxes. Important: we recommend that you copy the data of the localizedstring value in a .txt file and save it at a safe location, so that you may recover it in case of necessity. However, if you want the original name back, restore the value data with default value. Refresh view of your computer for the changes to take effect. Note: in windows 2000 the item is called printers. Next, the default value for windows xp and windows 2003 is @%systemroot%\system32\shell32.dll,-9319. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
The text printers and faxes can be changed with a customized text that you what to make appear in its place. For this, go to start > run menu, enter regedit and navigate to the registry path listed below. Now, right-click and modify the expandable string value localizedstring to the name that you want to appear in place of printers and faxes. Important: we recommend that you copy the data of the localizedstring value in a .txt file and save it at a safe location, so that you may recover it in case of necessity. However, if you want the original name back, restore the value data with default value. Refresh view of your computer for the changes to take effect. Note: in windows 2000 the item is called printers. Next, the default value for windows xp and windows 2003 is @%systemroot%\system32\shell32.dll,-9319. When editing the registry it is highly recommended to run a quick scan for optimization, you can test your system now for free.
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First, click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run'. In the resulting dialog box, type "regedit".
Second, go to the <b>[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}\]</b> key, right-click on the "LocalizedString" Expandable String value and click on "Modify".
Finally, enter the new name for Printers in the text box provided and click on 'OK'.
Registry Entries
- back to top- Path: [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}\]
- Location: Root
- Value Name: LocalizedString
- Data Type: REG_EXPAND_SZ (Expandable String Value)
- Action Type: Modified
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