Installing Network Printer On Windows 7 Error

January 29, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: How To Fix Windows 7 Network Printer Error 0x0000046a 

Printer connnected to XP on a network. When trying to install the XP network printer on a Windows 7 machine, the following error comes up:

Cannot install printer 0x0000046a

The solution is to increase the IRPStacksize parameter on the XP that is connected to the printer.

Using regedit navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters and right click on the IRPStackSize value. Default value is 15 so increase by 3 or 6 and then reboot the system.

For more info visit this link:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-hardware/network-printing-cannot-install-printer-0x0000046a/2e66a7e5-dc2e-4135-bd7d-5f90d623592b

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