how can i fix error code 2147500037

Peter, that's just it - I do NOT want to use IE for anything.  I know the workarounds but I choose NOT to use IE and I see no reason for M$ to force us to use IE for this single function.

I stand my ground - still more crickets from M$...

Windows uses IE for this task.

Start IE and say yes to let it be the default printer.

Print something.

Reset the default browser to your preferred product.

This worked for me but I'm not precious about temporarily changing my default browser.

Yes, I'm aware of several workarounds but what I want is for M$ to remove the dependence on IE for this function.  IE is not, nor will it be, my default browser.

..............Sound of crickets from M$.............

Why do you people insist on providing more and more obvious workarounds when we want the problem FIXED!?

Everyone knows we could just screenshot the window, crop, and print that. But we don't want to! That we could let IE be the default browser for a second while issuing the print command, then set it back to our preference. But we don't want to!

We want Microsoft to acknowledge this as a bug in the operating system and fix Homegroup password printing to not require reconfiguring the system to use IE as the default browser. Even for a split second.

You seriously want IE to be the default browser just so we can print? No! Does not compute! It should not be a requirement for printing the contents of a WebBrowserControl(InternetExplorer). Make it so it prints fine whatever browser we have. Use a standard method for printing, not some Homegroup-IE-specific printer hack.

My favorite printer is Save as PDF anyway. (Windows 10's built in default PDF printer.)

If you have a 'Snipping tool' on your PC, use this to take a snip and name it  Network or something similar then  paste on to a 'Word' Doc.

I have tried this method because I use Google and do not want to set IE as my default.

It may not fix the problem but you have a copy of your Password