Windows Cannot Connect to The Printer—How to Fix It

Date:2023-2-2 Author:Sandra

Sometimes our computer fails to connect to the printer. And we’ll get an error message: “Windows cannot connect to the printer.” So how to fix “Windows cannot connect to the printer” when it happens?

Windows Cannot Connect to The Printer—How to Fix It

Press the Win key and R key together to open the Run dialog box.

Windows Cannot Connect to The Printer—How to Fix It

Type gpedit.msc in the box and hit ok.

Windows Cannot Connect to The Printer—How to Fix It

Click them one by one.

Windows Settings → Security Settings →Local Policies→User Rights Assignment

→ double-click on the Deny access to this computer from the network to delete the guest account.

Windows Cannot Connect to The Printer—How to Fix It

Then double-click on the Network access: Sharing and security model for local accounts.

Windows Cannot Connect to The Printer—How to Fix It

Choose the first option—Classic-local users authenticate as themselves.

Windows Cannot Connect to The Printer—How to Fix It

The last step is double clicking on the Accounts: Limit local account use of blank passwords to console logon only.

Windows Cannot Connect to The Printer—How to Fix It

Set it as disabled.

Windows Cannot Connect to The Printer—How to Fix It

That’s all for today’s tutorial.

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