Explorer terminates when launching the Add Printer wizard

Source: Microsoft Support

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Explorer crashes when you try to use the “Add Printer” wizard from Control Panel\Printers to add a Network printer.

This happens on a Windows Vista computer that is joined in the domain, if the local account used has the same name and password as a valid Domain user account.

This is a problem of Windows Vista.

You may use the methods below to work around this issue:

Method 1:

In Explorer, Directly access the UNC path of the shared printer.

Method 2:

Use the command line to add the printer. A sample command is as follows:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n\\printserver\printername

For more information about the commands, please run the command below for the help information.

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?

Repro Steps
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1. On the Vista computer that is joined to the domain, create a local account with the same username and password as a Domain User Account
2. Logon as this local account.
3. In the Control panel, open Printers.
4. Click "Add a printer", and then click "Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer".

Now you may see Explorer crashes.

Here is the sample call Stack:

0:032> kv
ChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child
0313f80c 76f6f19c 0313cd71 7ffd3ffc 00500000 ntdll!DbgBreakPoint (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313f88c 76f6fcef c0000374 76f8cf50 0313f8d0 ntdll!RtlReportCriticalFailure+0x2e (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313f89c 76f6fddd 00000002 0313cd2d 025380e0 ntdll!RtlpReportHeapFailure+0x21 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313f8d0 76f3cae7 00000009 00500000 7ffd3ffc ntdll!RtlpLogHeapFailure+0xa1 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313f8f8 765f0206 00500000 00000000 7ffd3ffc ntdll!RtlSizeHeap+0x69 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313f90c 77073ef0 766be6fc 7ffd3ffc 025380e0 ole32!CRetailMalloc_GetSize+0x21 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313f930 77073df5 7ffd3ffc 00000010 0313fa48 oleaut32!APP_DATA::FreeCachedMem+0x30 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313f94c 6fbbd8e6 7ffd4000 7ffd4000 01567f80 oleaut32!SysFreeString+0x6b (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313f9a0 6fbbdc4f 0313fa48 7ffd4000 02502a28 printui!TADSearch::GetSearchInterface+0x90 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313fa5c 76effe6d 01567f80 0313cf3d 00587248 printui!TADSearch::FindADPrinters+0x85 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313fac0 76f2a2b8 01567f80 02502a28 0313ce15 ntdll!RtlpTpWorkCallback+0xbf (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313fbe8 76943833 00587240 0313fc34 76efa9bd ntdll!TppWorkerThread+0x522 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313fbf4 76efa9bd 00587240 0313c9c9 00000000 kernel32!BaseThreadInitThunk+0xe (FPO: [Non-Fpo])
0313fc34 00000000 76f2a044 00587240 00000000 ntdll!_RtlUserThreadStart+0x23 (FPO: [Non-Fpo])

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