I've started a new job and apparently everyone in the office has the same issue with default printers. No matter what anyone chooses as a default printer, when they shut off or reboot their computers, all of them reset to one particular printer as the default. This "default default" printer is "Auto HP Officejet Series 7300". While this will usually function as a printer, it's interminably slow to finally spool to the printer. What we're TRYING to choose is "HP Officejet Series 7300". They've even tried deleting the "Auto HP Officejet" from the control panel but it always returns when the computers are restarted, and it is always the default printer.

Does anyone know what's going on here, and what can be done to fix it? Hardly urgent, but definitely annoying.Does your office have a DEEP Freeze Software INSTALLED, if you look at the clock on the right side of the screen on the bottom, click on the arrow that hids the unused icons. Then look for like a bear, or a safe with ice all over it, or something like that, then hold left SHIFT and double click on it, if you have that, then there is only one thing to do, talk to MANAGER to disable that. Basiacly what that does is, Any Changes to the computer will be deleted when restarted, in this case is what you have. When Changing the printers, and saving files to the desktop after restart it will all be deleted.
P.S. I may be wrong but that is what we have in our college.Nope, nothing at all like that installed on any of the computers. Nothing in the TRAY, and nothing in the installed programs.Who manages the network there? It should be a simple matter to fix this for the right person.It's an office with three people in it, so no one actually "manages" the network. None of us are idiots when it comes to computers, but none of us have any idea what's going on with this. We'll call in a pro if we need to, but in a small office, it's always better not to spend the money if you don't absolutely have to.Is it a simple workgroup or a domain server?A simple workgroup on a Linksys wired network. All of the machines have Windows XP.