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How to install network printers in Vista

Installing network printer in Vista is a snap. Navigate to Control Panel > Printers > Add a printer > Add a network, wireless or BLuetooth Printer -> Select your desired printer from the list (not all printers will show, some you have to map using the UNC convention). Vista will ask you to whether or not to install the driver for the printer, select “Install Driver.” If everything goes fine after this step, then you are finished. However, if you encouter problem such as the annoying message

the specified printer monitor is unknown

then you will want to enable the UAC feature in order to complete the network printer installation. The strange thing is that after installing your first network printer with UAC enabled, you will still be able to install network printers later on with UAC feature disabled.