Rather than delete them, right click on them and disable them.
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows
"mpsull324" <mpsull324@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Every time my laptop is in sleep mode, shutdown, restarted, etc. it resets
> the default printer to the Microsoft XPS Document Writer. I know I could
> probably take the easy way out and delete the Microsoft XPS Document
> Writer
> (and also the Microsoft Office Document Image Writer) but I really don't
> want
> to. Does anyone know of any other way? I am the only user on the laptop
> and I
> am the administrator. I would appreciate any ideas/suggestions. Thanks in
> advance!!