Monday, September 27, 2010

Windows XP will not report a successful print job to the system log by default

By default Windows XP will not record an event for a successful print operation (job) in system log, but if you want Windows XP to do so (Because you are using a print monitoring software that collect its data from system log for example) I will show you how:

From "Start" menu select "Printers and Faxes"















From "File" menu select "Server Properties"
















Go to "Advanced" menu



















Check the "Log spooler information events" option (This option is checked by default on Windows Server 2003)




















Now when you make a successful print job ,the print server will record an "information" event in system log

From "Start" menu open "Administrative tools" and select "Event Viewer"
You will find event(s) similar to this one













The event showing the file name, size, number of pages, user name ,printer name ,date and time.

Nagy
31-12-2008
11:50 PM

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