Slow Network Printing as a User after XP SP2 but fast with local admin

[wongjj]

Having a problem with quite a few XP SP2 boxes here where a normal user, when trying to print has to wait a long time for a print dialog box to appear. If made to Power user, same result. However if made to Local Admin, it is fast and there seems to be no Problems. However, as we all know, it is bad practice to have users use local admin priviledges. Any insight would be great.

[degsy]

Welcome :)

Can you give a few more details.
Is it a network printer? Make/Model, setup etc.

[wongjj]

It is a network printer. HP 8150N.
The main problem we are trying to solve is why it works perfectly with local admin rights, but not power user or normal user. It also worked fine with SP1.
Other problems which we are facing include slow access to Microsoft office applications. Any ideas on where to look regarding permissions? and how/why they effect speed... TA!

[degsy]

I shall move this over to Networks to see if you get more info.

Is network access speed ok?

[bAdWaYz]

Check the windows firewall settings first.

[wongjj]

Windows firewall has been disabled...
Network access looks fairly normal... just Office and printing playing up

[Archangel122184]

You may consider resinstalling the print spooler on the clients, or enabling it if it is not already enabled. If it isn't enabled, local users don't have regular access to RPC commands to print directly, that is why print queues are used which requires the spooler.

Also, something a little easier to do is to completely reinstall the printer (including drivers) so that all of the correct permissions are created again.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=135406

That should help you.