The printer driver is not compatible with a policy enabled on your computer that blocks NT 4.0 drivers”. After a while googling I found out that windows 10 blocks older drivers and because of that you had to set some setting in windows group police editor. This process should work also with other printers. Here are the steps I took to get it. Why are you attempting to load (supposedly, I think you are miscommunicating something) Windows NT 4.0 drivers onto ANYTHING?Especially for a device released initially sometime (likely) in 2015 or later given Windows NT 4.0 was end-of-support back on June 30.
- Policy That Blocks Nt 4.0 Drivers Windows 10 Firmware
- Policy That Blocks Nt 4.0 Drivers Windows 10 Automatically
- Policy Enabled On Your Computer That Blocks Nt 4.0 Drivers Windows 10
So I had a problem at work: a client had a pretty old printer and after a Windows 10 update they couldn’t install its driver. Let’s see how we can resolve the issue.
The printer in question was a Sharp AR5316E and the error message was the following: “Windows can’t install the kernel-mode print driver. To obtain a driver that is compatible with the version of Windows you are running, contact the manufacturer.“ and after this there was another message “Windows cannot connect to the printer. Imac sleep settings. The printer driver is not compatible with a policy enabled on your computer that blocks NT 4.0 drivers”. After a while googling I found out that windows 10 blocks older drivers and because of that you had to set some setting in windows group police editor. This process should work also with other printers.
Policy That Blocks Nt 4.0 Drivers Windows 10 Firmware
Here are the steps I took to get it working
Policy That Blocks Nt 4.0 Drivers Windows 10 Automatically
Firs of all you have to delete the previous printer drivers, so because of this after this process previous printers need to be reinstalled.
The folders you have to delete are as follows:
The folders you have to delete are as follows:
NOTE: If you can’t delete them you need to stop printer spool service from service manager, and after deleting start the service again Tcpblock mac.
c:WindowsSystem32spooldriversW32X86
c:WindowsSystem32spooldriversx64
c:WindowsSystem32spooldriversx64
For this purpose I also made a cmd script that dose this for you, copy the code and past it into a file and name it delprint.cmd . After this you can run it and it will delete the required files.
Start Group Police Editor pressing Windows key + R and type gpedit.msc
Next step is to set the following settings:
Local computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Printers -> “Disallow installation of printers using kernel-mode drivers” set it to disable
Policy Enabled On Your Computer That Blocks Nt 4.0 Drivers Windows 10
Local computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Printers -> Point and printer Restrictions set it to enable and set the other marked settings.
These setting have to be set also here: Local computer Policy -> User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Printers -> Point and printer Restrictions
After these settings have been set you need to restart your pc or run the following command: gpupdate, when this is done try to install the printer again.
I hope this will help someone.