This is to all the Microsoft tech people and to all the other people who have provided WORKAROUNDS for this problem.
Example Problem: Your car won't start and you find out you have a bad/dead battery but you have to go to work.
Workarounds: Workaround #1: Jump your battery from another battery/car.
Workaround #2: You walk to work.
Workaround #3: You ride a moped to work.
Workaround #4: You ride a bicycle to work.
Workaround #5: You call for a taxicab.
These are all WORKAROUNDS for the example above. These WORKAROUNDS DO NOT FIX THE PROBLEM. The FIX/SOLUTION to this example is to buy a new battery and MICROSOFT DOESN'T WANT TO BUY A NEW BATTERY.
This problem is not a Homegroup or a Printer problem. The problem is the way Microsoft has programmed this one print job (AND ONLY THIS ONE PRINT JOB) to require IE to be the default browser.
There are no other print jobs/requests that require IE to be the default browser.
Microsoft refuses to acknowledge that this is a programming error and refuses to fix the problem.
I hope someone in Microsoft has enough technical knowledge to fix this problem and not provide any more workarounds.
I wonder how it would feel to any Microsoft personnel to sit there and have to stop what they are doing, click at least 5 different times to make IE the default browser, a couple more clicks to print the document, then, at least 5 more clicks to change the default browser from IE to the browser of their choosing.
Well done Microsoft.
This is how all big businesses operate. Just look at the financial meltdown and how these companies treated the consumers. These companies were bailed out from the US Government but the consumers were left holding the bag. No one was ever arrested, tried or convicted of a crime. Even one of these companies took the bail out money and paid their top executives bonuses. This is greed(money).
This is just one simple persons' opinion.