What happened to the Microsoft Universal Printer Driver Library (UNIDRV.DLL)?

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Gabriel Lozano-Morán - 30 May 2006 21:03 GMT

does anyone have any idea what happened to the Microsoft Universal Printer Driver Library? I am trying to install SnagIt v8.0.1 on my Windows Vista Beta 2 system but I get the following dialog box:

But I could not find this file anywhere except off course on the internet and propably also on the installation media of previous Windows platforms. Has this printer driver library finally been replaced with a managed library? Did anybody read anything about that?

Gabriel Lozano-Morán
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Zack Whittaker - 30 May 2006 22:41 GMT

Hmm... can't answer that, but maybe it's just a lost DLL? Try downloading it from here:
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?unidrv

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Alan Morris [MSFT] - 30 May 2006 23:33 GMT

in the ntprint inf repository

C:\>dir unidrv*.dll /s
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 5CB9-0364

Directory of
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\ntprint.inf_909750a4\I386

05/23/2006 09:38 PM 370,176 UNIDRV.DLL
05/23/2006 09:38 PM 499,712 UNIDRVUI.DLL
2 File(s) 869,888 bytes

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Hmm... can't answer that, but maybe it's just a lost DLL? Try downloading it
from here:
http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?unidrv

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"Gabriel Lozano-Morán" <gabriel@pointerx.net> wrote in message
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does anyone have any idea what happened to the Microsoft Universal Printer
Driver Library? I am trying to install SnagIt v8.0.1 on my Windows Vista
Beta 2 system but I get the following dialog box:

But I could not find this file anywhere except off course on the internet
and propably also on the installation media of previous Windows platforms.
Has this printer driver library finally been replaced with a managed
library? Did anybody read anything about that?

Gabriel Lozano-Morán
The .NET Aficionado
http://www.pointerx.net

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Gabriel Lozano-Morán - 31 May 2006 18:05 GMT

Alan

That's what I did also but I could not find the UNIDRV.DLL file and also in
the dialog box the path is not complete but it was looking for the file in
the ntprint.inf repository.

I have absolutely no idea on what went wrong here. Fresh installation of
Windows Vista Beta 2 + Office System 2007 Beta 2 and next what I installed
was SnagIt.

Cheers

Gabriel Lozano-Morán
The .NET Aficionado
http://www.pointerx.net

> in the ntprint inf repository
>
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> it from here:
> http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?unidrv

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Alan Morris [MSFT] - 31 May 2006 18:45 GMT

No clue what Snagit it.

If the application is installing a printer that is looking for ntprint.inf
in the needs and includes section of it's inf, first point to ntprint.inf
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\ntprint.inf_909750a4\ntprint.inf

then when it needs unidrv.dll point to

C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\ntprint.inf_909750a4\i386

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> Alan
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>> it from here:
>> http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?unidrv

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