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Bernd_Kreuzinger
Copper Contributor
Dec 19, 2018

What kind of function has the reg key [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Printers\ConvertUserDevModesCount] ?

Hello,

do somebody know what function has the key
[HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Printers\ConvertUserDevModesCount] ?
In some clients we found there thousands of entries like
"\\\\CSR|PRINTSERVERNAME\\{370E422B-36F9-4EDF-92A3-BED9E3E0262F}"=dword:00000001
A normal user profile sometimes has also thousands of entries in this key.
What does this entries in the windows system? I haven't found anything relevant on the net.

Can we delete this key without a problem?

Maybe someone can help.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards

Bernd

  • Stuart3113's avatar
    Stuart3113
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 11, 2019

    Bernd did you ever figure this out? In my experience you can delete the keys, but I don't understand what process is creating them. Win 10 is very frustrating wrt printing with numerous issues!

  • Benjamin3005's avatar
    Benjamin3005
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 02, 2019

    Having that combined with served shared network printers per GPO, and they keep dublicating for the users.   someone who can Help... ? 

  • rsantoslhricorg's avatar
    rsantoslhricorg
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 20, 2019

    Bernd_Kreuzinger Apparently deleting the entire key just gets recreated. No issues have appeared for our users.  What is frustrating is that we opened a premier ticket with microsoft, 118092919120606 and got no where.  This is the same printer bloat their terminal servers used to get.  It happens with all kinds of drivers...

     

    All i know is, this is something to do with user based print server mapping.  this doesnt happen if you map the printer to a computer.

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