Windows 10 Finally found a solution to the issue of Word printing blank files to the System32 folder

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Good morning,One of our users recently started having an issue where Microsoft Word would refuse to print. Everything else worked just fine, SPECIFICALLY Word was failing to send files to the printer. It was triggering the print queue to show up in the system tray, but clicking on it would open the System32 folder rather than any print queues to manage. If I set it to print to PDF, it output zero byte long files without even a .pdf file header.The setting which was causing this problem, which the user had not manually enabled but which seems to have been enabled either by accident or by an upd

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