Microsoft Fax Is installed When Direct Cable Connection Is Added

When you add a "Communications cable between two computers" connection using either the "Phone and Modems Options" tool in Control Panel or the Add/Remove Hardware Wizard, a fax printer is automatically installed in the Printers folder.

The behavior occurs because Microsoft Fax is a core component that is installed automatically when the first modem is added to the computer, and Direct Cable Connection is installed and managed as a modem.

You need take no action. You can ignore the fax printer; it does not function between the two computers over a direct serial cable connection.

This behavior is by design.