Overview

As users adopt to the new Windows 10 platform, printing issues similar to those of Windows 7 arise.

Generally as a resulf of IT department rules, it becomes impossible to install any software add-ons to a user device.

Whether to stop the introduction of viruses or as a result of IT policy, when the need arises to install software add-ons, then you'll need to resort (in some instances) to manual work arounds.

Microsoft knowledge base is full of these, and the item here desccribes one of the manual workarounds.

  • Open a Command Prompt as administrator (right click on a shortcut to the Command Prompt and select "Run as Administrator").
  • Run this command:
    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\regsvr32 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vsprint7.ocx
  • Run this command: 
    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\regsvr32 C:\Windows\SysWOW64\vspdf.ocx

 

If you 'cd' to the c:\windows\sysWOW64 directory, then you do not need to use the long-hand as shown above.