[BUG] - Enabling printing & notifications doesn't unhide their Settings pages

[Flearz]

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Description

Hello, I think i checked "Disable printing" on playbook install (0.4).

Enable Printing.cmd doesn't fully enable printing back, the windows menus are not working.

Running windows 10 10.00.19045 Build 19045

Thanks in advance

Steps to reproduce

1. Clicking on this:
2. Just always brings me there:

I tried to run it multiple times as admin.

Expected behavior

Expect to get this menu:

Actual behavior

I get this

Atlas Edition

Atlas for Windows 10 22H2

Desktop information

Virtual machine:

Additional content

No response

[mian196]

If i remember correctly the printing to work on VM you need to install the vmware tools also

[mian196]

Also check the printing service manually in services

[he3als]

This is a known issue with the scripts for notifications and printing, it'll be fixed next update

[codebykoi]

any workaround for this? I need to print my course work asap

[shelltar]

any workaround for this? I need to print my course work asap

Printing still works, you just can't access the menu. I can print just fine. The scanner doesn't work, though.

[he3als]

Open Command Prompt as an administrator and use these commands as a workaround

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To fix printing:

call "%windir%\AtlasModules\Scripts\settingsPages.cmd" /unhide printers

To fix notifications:

call "%windir%\AtlasModules\Scripts\settingsPages.cmd" /unhide notifications
call "%windir%\AtlasModules\Scripts\settingsPages.cmd" /unhide privacy-notifications

[robertosw]

I've got the same problem. Just installed AtlasOS a few days ago and I am 100% sure that I configured everything so that printing would still be possible after the AtlasOS install. If I search for "printer" I will get this: But clicking on this will just open the settings page on its home page. Devices > Printers does not exist

[Schokobecher]

This didn't work for me. I even checked SettingsPageVisibility in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and it reads:

hide:recovery;autoplay;usb;maps;maps-downloadmaps;findmydevice;privacy;notifications;privacy-notifications;privacy-feedback;privacy-activityhistory;search-permissions;privacy-location;privacy-general;sync;;cortana-windowssearch;mobile-devices;mobile-devices-addphone;workplace;family-group;deviceusage;home;account

Clicking anything print settings related just brings me back to the Settings Overview. Print Spooler is running, also have the Print context-menu entry, and Print Management Console also works after running Enable Printing and rebooting.

Running AtlasOS v0.4.0 on Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (Version 10.0.22631 Build 22631)

[rdekens]

same issue here - fix above didnt fix. No access tot he printers controls - have disables and re-enabled - tested against another macchine with standard win11 - it works atlas doesn't

[he3als]

Fixed in release v0.4.1. See the release for more info on what v0.4 users can do.

[SRK7Kyros]

I was able to fix this, thanks to an hint by @Schokobecher (as the workaround didnt really work anything around anything for me):

This didn't work for me. I even checked SettingsPageVisibility in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer and it reads:

hide:recovery;autoplay;usb;maps;maps-downloadmaps;findmydevice;privacy;notifications;privacy-notifications;privacy-feedback;privacy-activityhistory;search-permissions;privacy-location;privacy-general;sync;;cortana-windowssearch;mobile-devices;mobile-devices-addphone;workplace;family-group;deviceusage;home;account

TL;DR

1. open registry editor
2. go to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. right click the SettingsPageVisible key
4. click on modify
5. remove notifications; hide:foo;bar;notifications;foo2;bar2 -> hide:foo;bar;foo2;bar2

Explanation

the setting hes talking about is the settings page visibility, which is mentioned in various google searches i made, not particularly for the notifications page. it allows administrators to hide certain pages with the hide:{page};{page} syntax, or only show some of the pages with the showonly:{page};{page} syntax. So the fix relies on removing the notifications page from the hide section. easy as that really.