In this case, when I upgraded the laptop that I use as my main home & work machine from Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 10 Pro, I suddenly found that the way Windows 10 (& Windows 8, apparently) managed the default printer stank. Really stank. Under Windows 7 ( "Device and Printers -> Printers and Faxes" -> "Manage default printers"), I had a default printer set for every network that my laptop had to encounter at my house, my work, and the other places I used the laptop on a regular basis. Windows 10 wiped that out, and replaced it with "Let Windows manage my default printer", which behaves differently in one important and annoying way - it switches the default printer it associates with a given network to the last printer used. In other words, if you mostly use a specific printer when on a specific network, you probably want that one to be the default all of the time. But under the new Windows 8/10 scheme, it you need to use another printer, the act of using that other printer changes the default associated with that network. (This is the kind of thing that makes you wonder if everyone at Microsoft really uses Linux in their day-to-day work at Microsoft.)
The bottom line is I wrote Network Printer Control to give me the old default printer behavior back, namely the default printer stays the way I set it even if I occasionally use other printers on the network. Network Drive Control is free and has a built in help function.
What is new in this release:
Version 1.3: 1. Added a menu item that causes a tray item to be present that when clicked on, brings up the Console. Normally no part of NPC is running after the drives are mapped. Nor is any part of NPC running after the Console is closed. But if one opts to have a System Tray icon, then a small program will remain running that calls the Console when left clicked. Right clicking on the tray icon gives the user the option to stop the icon program. 2. Fixed another bug in automatic update check. Fixed bug in the Manager (the module that runs on user login) where it might not check for updates correctly, and hence could report that a new update was available even when there was none. 3. Updated help file. 4. New icon, mainly because the old icon looks to much like the Network Drive Control icon, and if you use both utilities like I do, you don't want their system tray icons to look too similar. 5. Compiler for tray program set to optimize for speed rather than minimum size of binary. (To minimize it's use of Windows resources.) Other modules are still set for size optimization.
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