How To? - Add a Printer on User Without Admin Rights

In this article I explain how to add a printer to a user that does not have admin rights on a MS/Windows machine. I get this asked a lot for users that are on corporate machines and want to add a home printer but their IT department locks out the user from adding printer drivers. 

Many times even the help desk agents don't know how to efficiently do this, so here is how an admin can do this without having to log out the user.

1. Important: You will need an account with admin rights to the machine - this is usually a local admin account
2. Have the admin take control of your machine (or use the elevated credentials if you know them) and run a CMD window in elevated mode (i.e. admin mode):
   1. In the start window type "cmd"
   2. Use the CMD as the "Run as administrator" option:
   3. 
   4. You must allow the "App to Make Changes on Your Machine" and provide the local admin credentials
   5. In the "Administrator: Command Prompt" enter "rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /il"
   6. 
   7. This will launch the "Add Printer Wizard" with administrative privileges and allow you to add the printer/drivers to the machine
   8. Once added, simply close the window and the user can continue with their day-to-day activities...

How to add a printer to a user account without admin rights: