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Tentatively Solved In case anyone is still interested, and in thanks to those who responded, I want to let you know that the printer setting has been stable for over a week now, with no default printer changes logged. The one thing I did was to uninstall and reinstall the printer driver. I...

Update for anyone who might be interested: I disabled Wake on LAN, in hopes that this unwanted change of default printer was related to waking up from sleep mode. Couple of hours later, though, the change recurred while I was actually working on the PC (I set the default to the correct printer...

The idea of its failing over when it wakes up sounds right to me, but if that's the case, surely others would have seen this behavior? I'm not finding anything about it in my searches. I think deleting the default fax, which has never been used, is probably a good step, at least for...

Thank you for the suggestion. I can't think of any such software that is running. The PC just has scanner software, Office 2007, Firefox, not much more than that. No VPNs involved, no 3rd party comm software. I'm very suspicious of the sleep issue and will probably try turning off the...

Yes, But . . . Yes, I could probably work around it (maybe) by keeping the PC from going to sleep, but I'd rather 1) figure out what is going on and 2) use sleep mode to save energy, being a good citizen and all. So, no, I haven't tried that. I suppose that if I did, and the problem did not...

This is a small problem that occurs only on one of three Windows 7 computers I have, but it's driving me nuts. I cannot get to the bottom of it. Any help would be most welcome. I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium on a Dell XPS 210 (computername: Dee-PC) on my home network. The print service...