OK, new and special weirdness from MS GPO installed network printers. Today the user lost the ability to print to HP printers. He can print to the Xerox printers and the pdf printers OK. Other users can print fine, it's just that users profile. I have already deleted the printers (from the registry manually, since my network printers are nearly impossible to gracefully delete for some reason), and reinstalled them. Also did a sfc.exe scan and even a system restore back a few days before the problem manifested (today). Nothing has helped the issue. Any print job that he sends to an HP printer just disappears without error or message. I installed local versions of his needed printers
Now, since all of the HP printers are using the same "universal" driver, I can understand how all the HP drivers would fail at the same time - something in...