Printers showing up in Windows 7 Explorer

[Metspitzer]

http://i.imgur.com/HoQVp.png

I think I remember enabling this. I would now like to disable it.

I don't want my printers listed when displaying a network drive.

Thanks

 

[Vic RR Garcia]

http://i.imgur.com/HoQVp.png

I think I remember enabling this. I would now like to disable it.

I don't want my printers listed when displaying a network drive.

Thanks

Well, do not share your printers.
Right-click printer, select Shared.

 

[Metspitzer]

Well, do not share your printers.
Right-click printer, select Shared.

I want the printers shared (they are on another machine) I just don't
want them on the list. Or at least, in another category.

Why should they be there anyway?

 

[Seth]

I want the printers shared (they are on another machine) I just don't
want them on the list. Or at least, in another category.

So you want the printers to be "shared resources" but don't want them to
show up in a list of "Shared resources"?

Why should they be there anyway?

Cause that's the place where shared resources are displayed.

One thing you can try, I haven't tried it with printers, is to make the last
character of the share name a dollar sign ($). With file shares that makes
them invisible.

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

I want the printers shared (they are on another machine) I just
don't
want them on the list. Or at least, in another category.

Why should they be there anyway?

They are there because you are showing the shared resources on a
machine. Not sure why you don't think they should show since they are
shared resources, just like the shared drives / folders. And, they've
shown when browsing to a networked machine in every version of Windows
I can remember.

Regardless, I do not know of a way to turn off that behavior.

 

[Metspitzer]

They are there because you are showing the shared resources on a
machine. Not sure why you don't think they should show since they are
shared resources, just like the shared drives / folders. And, they've
shown when browsing to a networked machine in every version of Windows
I can remember.

Regardless, I do not know of a way to turn off that behavior.

I was hoping you could, at least, group them so that the data folders
are in one group and the printers are in another.

Thanks

 

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

I was hoping you could, at least, group them so that the data
folders
are in one group and the printers are in another.

I don't know of a way off the top of my head and I don't have a
networked Windows 7 machine to hand for experimenting at the moment,
sorry.