If you have a printserver in your network and you want to change certain properties, e.g. print black/white instead of color, normally what you do is change the settings on the Advanced Tab - Default Settings Button. These are the settings a user inherits when first connecting to the shared printer.
But what if you want to revert these settings. You’d have to remove the printer from the userprofile and make sure the printer’s readded, in order to inherit the new default settings.
This is exactly what the following script does.
It also cleans removed/unshared printers, as it can only re-add printers that still exist.
on error resume next
Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")
'## Enumerate all the current printers in the profile
Set oPrinters = WshNetwork.EnumPrinterConnections
For i = 0 to oPrinters.Count - 1 Step 2
'## Disconnect the printer
WshNetwork.RemovePrinterConnection ""& oPrinters.Item(i+1) &"", true, true
'## Readd the same printer (if still exists)
WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection ""& oPrinters.Item(i+1) &"", true, true
Next
msgbox "Done"
You might want to comment the last line to make the script run totally silent.