how can i fix error code 2147500037

Just set IE your default web browser only to print the homegroup password successfully. After that you can switch back to Firefox.

I have this error message now too. I have Windows 10 and I changed Edge to my default browser and it still wouldn't print the password. Keeps giving the same error message. I don't want to try and download IE just to print a page.

As a programmer I can tell you that I don't think they even expected to run into an issue like this so they couldn't have advised us of the nonsensical requirement of IE. Had they seen it, they would have simply fixed it and then there would be no need for an explanation.

All they did is put the whole code inside a generic, top level, catch-all error handling block. (try-catch)

There is no specific error message, just a generic error code which is probably a hash of the crashing filename + source line.

They likely tested it with IE only. So they never saw this error. And nobody from the Microsoft developer team saw this bug report or if they did they didn't pay it any real attention.

This was not intentional. You can't program for every case. Bloated design requirements suck. They didn't want to write up sixty pages of documentation for a simple print button.

In addition to forcing us to use IE, this is a good example of how most software developers (not just at MS) treat the customer.  Rather than tell us in the first place that IE needs to be the default for this to work, it gives us an inscrutable error message.  The onus is then on the customer to figure out what this means and how to solve this bug.  

Why in the world can't the software simply advise us of this requirement in the first place?  There is plenty of room for a sentence to explain it.  If they don't want to tell us until we encounter the bug, then they could accompany the inscrutable error message with an explanation.  This is just common sense.  

Why is it so hard to treat customers with basic courtesy?   It should be a basic requirement in designing software.

We know how to circumvent the known problem however, we do NOT want to to use IE for anything.  That's the issue with this thread.