Scripting an USB virtual printer port....

Dear all,

This is my problem: I'm trying to create a silent installation of a printer
driver: The printer will be attached to the PC using USB. The port used is
USB001 . The problem is that this port doesn't exist on this new PC.
So my question is simple how to script this USB001 creation, to install it
before creating the printer queue?

Many thanks and best regards.
Robin.

PnP creates the port when the device is attached. You could write the same
registry keys but there is nothing in the spooler to perform this function.

the portname is under this key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\U SBPRINT

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"Robin" <Robin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Dear all,
>
> This is my problem: I'm trying to create a silent installation of a
> printer
> driver: The printer will be attached to the PC using USB. The port used is
> USB001 . The problem is that this port doesn't exist on this new PC.
> So my question is simple how to script this USB001 creation, to install it
> before creating the printer queue?
>
> Many thanks and best regards.
> Robin.