Step 3: Click Devices and Printers to see all installed printers. Step 2: In the Control Panel, change the View by to Small icons.

There are multiple ways to open Control Panel in Windows 10 but typing Control Panel in the Start/taskbar search box and then pressing Enter key is probably the easiest way to open Control Panel. Method 2 of 3 Set default printer in Devices and Printers When this is on, Windows will set your default printer to be the one you used most recently at your current location” option. If you want to manually set a printer as your default and don’t want Windows 10 to automatically set a printer as default, you need to navigate to Settings > Devices > Printers & Scanners, and turn off “Let Windows manage my default printer.

Windows 10 automatically sets the most recently used printer as your default printer. Prevent Windows 10 from automatically choosing the default printer Once the auto default printer selection is turned off, you can manually set a printer as default. So, if you want to manually set a printer as the default printer in Windows 10, you need to first stop Windows 10 from automatically choosing the default printer.

Many users prefer to manually set a printer as default. Although this is a nice feature to have, not everyone prefers to set the most recently used printer as the default printer. Windows 10 automatically sets the most recently used printer as the default one.

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