You may have more than one printer set up in your computer. By setting one of the printers to be your default printer, it will become the printer that will be automatically selected in the print dialog windows of your applications.

To set the default printer in Windows Vista ...
Do you know how when you boot up your laptop in the library and Windows makes a startup sound when it first starts up? And then everyone in the library looks at you for causing such noise.

Well, in this tutorial we will show you how to disable this Windows startup sound as well as it shutdown sound.

In Windows Windows Vista...
1. Click "Start -> Control Panel".
2. If you are in the "Classic View" of control panel, click "Control Panel Home".
3. Click the link "Printer" in under the "Hardward and Sound" categoy.
4. Right-click on the printer icon that you want to be the default printer and select "Set as Default Printer" from the context menu.

To set default printer in Windows XP, it is similar...
1. Click "Start -> Control Panel".
2. If you are in the "Classic View" of control panel, click "Switch to Category View".
3. Click "Printers and Other Hardware".
4. Click "Printer and Faxes"
5. Right-click on the printer icon that you want to be the default printer and select "Set as Default Printer" from the context menu.

Note that if the printer is already set as the default printer, it will have a checkmark next to the printer icon and there will not be a context menu to "Set as Default Printer".