Disable Auto-Restored and Auto-Retained Printers Citrix Xen App 7.5,6.5,6.0,5.0

Disable Auto-Restored and Auto-Retained Printers

Auto-retained and auto-restored printers are printers that are not initially auto-created and are manually added to a user’s session.

Auto-retained and auto-restored printers are stored in user profiles under HKCU\Software\Citrix\PrinterProperties. Implementing the DefaultPrnFlags value in the Instructions Section still writes information to this key; Without this flag, users or administrators would have to manually delete these printers or a script would be required to delete the sub keys under HKCU\Software\Citrix\PrinterProperties.

To disable these type of printers add or modify this registry value on each server in the farm.

If the DefaultPrnFlags DWORD already exists on the server, add the specified hexadecimal value to the current value.

Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\Print
Value name: DefaultPrnFlags
Type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 0x80000000

DefaultPrnFlags registry value requires a DWORD in hexadecimal only. 

In earlier versions of XenApp, this setting was configurable using a registry setting and per-server.