Quick Tip: How To Manage Your Printers in Windows 10

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

December 7, 2016

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Quick Tip: How To Manage Your Printers in Windows 10

 

As we continue to test the third major Feature Update to Windows 10, the Creators Update, we are seeing more of the legacy Control Panel functionality make its way into the Windows Settings app in Windows 10.

Unfortunately, this transition has been and continues to be a slow and steady process. In many cases only parts of that functionality has made its way into the Windows Settings app from the Control Panel so we get a mix of old and new in most areas.

One of those areas that is a solid 50/50 mix of legacy and new is Printer Management which is accessible in Windows Settings>Devices>Printers & scanners.

As you will see in this gallery walkthrough, the links under Printer Management use legacy elements of the Control Panel for right now. How much that will change is still to be determined but Microsoft has stated previously it is their goal to move everything for system management into the Windows Settings app.

Of course, you can still use the Devices and Printers program in the legacy Control Panel to manage your printers until that functionality is stripped from the operating system.

 

About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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