{"id":3119,"date":"2016-05-16T13:55:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2025-01-29T10:55:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T05:25:27","slug":"cannot-print-standard-user-temp-folder-permissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/cannot-print-standard-user-temp-folder-permissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Printing Works Only for Administrators; Non-Admins Can&#8217;t Print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re wondering why standard users can&#8217;t print (and only administrators can) especially after relocating your <code>TEMP<\/code> folder on your Windows computer, this article has the explanation and a fix.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Cause<\/h2>\n<p>Moving your Temp folder can sometimes cause printing issues in Windows, depending upon how the Permissions are set in the destination folder or drive. After changing your TEMP or TMP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/set-user-environment-variable-setx-windows-10\/\">user environment variables<\/a> to move your Temp folder to a different drive, the new Temp folder inherits the permissions from the parent, often resulting in missing NTFS Permissions for your user account.<\/p>\n<p>After moving the TEMP folder, running the command &#8220;<code>ICACLS %TEMP%<\/code>&#8221; from Command Prompt typically shows the Permission entries as below, or slightly similar:<\/p>\n<pre><code>BUILTIN\\Administrators:(I)(F)\nBUILTIN\\Administrators:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)\nNT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM:(I)(F)\nNT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)\nNT AUTHORITY\\Authenticated Users:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(M)\nBUILTIN\\Users:(I)(RX)\nBUILTIN\\Users:(I)(OI)(CI)(IO)(GR,GE)<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>There are two things here. Your user account is missing from the list. Also, Authenticated Users and Users have Modify and Read\/Execute accesses for your TEMP folder, which are not required. With the above Permissions, the following problems occur:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The test page doesn&#8217;t print from the standard user token, even if you&#8217;re an administrator. Elevated programs <strong>can<\/strong> print.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/reinstall-microsoft-print-to-pdf-delete-accidentally\/\">Microsoft Print to PDF<\/a> generates a 0-byte file or does nothing when printed as a standard user.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short, the following are the Permission entries we really need.<\/p>\n<pre><code>NT AUTHORITY\\SYSTEM:(OI)(CI)(F)\nBUILTIN\\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(F)\nW10-PC\\Ramesh:(OI)(CI)(F)<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><i>*where Ramesh, in this example, is the user name.<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>Fix: Printing Works Only for Administrators<\/h2>\n<p>Here is how to fix the Permissions for the TEMP folder so that even non-administrators\/Users can print.<\/p>\n<h3>Fix the TEMP folder Permissions<\/h3>\n<p>Open an elevated or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/open-elevated-command-prompt-windows\/\">Admin Command Prompt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Type the following commands exactly as given below, and press ENTER after each command:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"cmd\">icacls %temp% \/inheritance:r\nicacls %temp% \/grant %username%:(OI)(CI)F \/t \/c\nicacls %temp% \/grant *S-1-5-32-544:(OI)(CI)F \/t \/c\nicacls %temp% \/grant *S-1-5-18:(OI)(CI)F \/t \/c\nmd %temp%\\Low\nicacls %temp%\\Low \/setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low<\/pre>\n<p>The first command removes all inherited Permissions for the TEMP folder. The next three commands are to grant Administrators, SYSTEM, and your user account Full Control Permissions recursively (including sub-folders and files). And the last command sets the integrity level of &#8220;<code>%TEMP%\\Low<\/code>&#8221; folder to Low Mandatory Integrity Level so that the folder can be accessed by programs running in low IL, like Internet Explorer. This needs to be set in order to avoid printing issues in Web browsers, like Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>Now you get this result when running &#8220;<code>ICACLS %TEMP%<\/code>&#8220;, which is exactly what we need.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/icacls-tmp-1.png\" width=\"490\" height=\"115\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That should fix printing issues related to incorrect NTFS Permissions. You can, of course, configure the same Permissions using Permissions dialog via Temp folder properties, but I personally prefer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/?s=icacls\">Icacls<\/a> because it&#8217;s a quicker way to accomplish the task. If you&#8217;re doing it using the Permissions tab, it should eventually look like this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/icacls-tmp-2.png\" width=\"504\" height=\"297\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"rp\"><strong>RELATED:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/fix-zipped-folder-access-denied-unable-complete-operation\/\">Fix Compressed (Zipped) Folder Access Denied Error &#8220;Unable to Complete the Operation&#8221;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re wondering why standard users can&#8217;t print (and only administrators can) especially after relocating your TEMP folder on your Windows computer, this article has the explanation and a fix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[106,250,577],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows","tag-command-prompt","tag-icacls","tag-takeown"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1193,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/fix-zipped-folder-access-denied-unable-complete-operation\/","url_meta":{"origin":3119,"position":0},"title":"[Fix] Compressed (Zipped) Folder Access Denied Error &#8220;Unable to Complete the Operation&#8221;","author":"Ramesh","date":"October 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"When you try to create a Compressed (zipped) folder in Windows, the error \"Unable to complete the operation. 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