How do I disable UPD "Requesting device properties..." Dialog?

[Haunty]

I have two Windows Server 2008 R2 servers, and every time I add an IP printer with the HP Universal Printing Driver, I get this when I try to get into the printer properties:

How do I disable this? I just want it to act like a normal printer without any HP software getting in the way.

[Haunty · Accepted solution]

Well I found out how, by using the Install.exe in the unzipped driver package, there is an option for Traditional Mode and... the Dynamic Mode. Traditional mode is what I needed and I was able to add the printer.

[JCody]

This can be turned of for a device without recreating the queue. Found this after some of the queues on my server started doing this with the UPD version upgrade. This isn't a great solution if you have a large amount of queues attempting to use the Dynamic Mode UI instead of the Traditional Mode, but it works great if you just have a few.

For each affected queue do the following:

Go to the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\%QUEUENAME%\PrinterDriverData

Create a new dword value:

StaticMode

Assign Value:

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[juvruda]

We're a school district and we've been experiencing this more recently during our migration to windows 7 (finally!) and this issues happens on random workstations.

On the server side (Server 2008 R2 sp1) , the printer was installed as traditional, but something happens when the printer is installed via the web interface and it will either install as traditional or it will install as dynamic.  If you install it by searching the network (via Devices and Printers, "add a printer"), the printer installs as traditional every single time.

I found registry solution mentioned and it does work on the workstation with the issue, but I may see this issue on hundreds of workstations. We are having our users install their printers after they get Windows 7 and I need to have the printers install consistently as traditional printers on every workstation via the web interface.

Thanks.