How To Turn Off Let Windows Manage My Printer In Windows 11 [Tutorial]

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How To Turn Off Let Windows Manage My Printer In Windows 11 [Tutorial]

Normally, Windows 11 will automatically set the printer you used most recently to be your default printer. For some people, this can be annoying. Luckily, you can turn this feature off and manage your default printer manually. Here’s how.

Using Printers and identifying which was in use was easy with Windows 7. Upon opening the ‘Devices and Printers’ menu, one could easily check which printer was set to default – something that doesn’t happen in Windows 11. Windows 11 is smart. It has a feature that is set to ON by default and sets the default printer to the one used most recently at the user’s current location.

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Suppose I am connected to my home network on my laptop and give a command to print a document from my Canon printer, it will set the printer as default for my home network. Whenever I give a command to print any document while being connected to the home network after that, it will automatically command the Canon printer to print the document.

However, if I command to print a document while being connected to some other network, say office network, it won’t send the print instruction to the Canon printer but the printer I last printed from when connected to the office network. This makes Windows 11 a smarter operating system.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 11 operating system (Home, Professional, Enterprise, Education) from all supported hardware manufactures, like Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Samsung.