How do I disable printer install? 1

[setitup]

Hi, this might be a stupid question for all you tekies out there, but I forgot how and where?
How do I disable the function in Win XP to install every darn printer it finds on the network. C I've got a lot of clients who gets confused by this(all the printers).
Thanx

 

[bcastner]

There is a builtin scanner that crawls/scans/searches the network and any share or printer discovered are added to My Network Places or Printers and Faxes.

The scanner is started in the following situations:
At startup
When opening My Network Places
When refreshing My Network Places by pressing F5
The scanner is not started if one of the following conditions are true:
If more than 10 computers are detected sharing folders (To be gentle on corporate networks)
If using DUN or VPN connection
If the scanner is disabled.

The scanner saves its findings here (If more than 7 days old then they are deleted)
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Netcrawl \Shares]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Netcrawl \Printers]

To disable the automatic scanning:
Open Control Panel
Double click Folder Options (Inside the grouping Appearance and Themes)
Select the View tab
In the Advanced Settings list untick Automatically search for network folders and printers
It is reflected with this DWORD value in the registry:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \Explorer \Advanced]
NoNetCrawling = 1

Source: Snakefoot