Can't set printer preferences

I have been beating my head against this problem for weeks. 
For all my local and networked printers, whenever I try to change the preferences, I get the message, “Printer settings could not be saved.  Access denied.”  I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit.  There is no error
number shown.  I do NOT have the problem when I change the properties on the one printer I have that is accessed as a shared printer through another (good) machine.  This is a home setup.  I have no password and I am the only administrator.
This would seem to be a permissions problem either on the local print server or in the folder paths involved in printing.  I believe that path would be c:\windows\system32\spool and its subfolders. 
I am very fortunate to have a second (good) computer that is almost identical to my (bad) machine and on the good computer I can easily change the preferences for all printers. 
So I compared literally all the properties of the good and bad machines that were identified in Devices and Printers—Print server properties.  I did not find any differences.  Then I compared the properties c:\windows\system32\spool
and all its subfolders.  There were some minor differences in the subfolder properties, so I changed those properties in the bad machine to match the good machine.  It did not help. 
I did not notice the problem until I installed my newest printer, so I uninstalled that printer, but the problem was still there.  I also got some ideas from searching the web that did not pan out.  That included stopping
and starting the windows firewall server and the print spooling server plus reboot.  I looked pretty hard, but there isn’t much info on the net about this.  A few others have had the problem, but the only posts that claimed a fix were the server
stops, and they didn’t work out for me.
I don’t think I missed something when I tried to match up the properties, but I could have because there is a tremendous amount of detail there.  I spend 2 full days doing it.
I am out of ideas, and my head is getting sore.  Can anyone help me?

It’s working!!!  Thanks to Roger Lu!
Comparison with the good machine showed that the keys HKCU\Printers\DevModePerUse & HKCU\Printers\DevModes2 were corrupted in 3 ways:
1.  The group RESTRICTED was missing.  Technet search said that would not affect my situation, so I ignored it.
2.  My user name had been replaced with “Power Users”.  I left it there, but added my user name.
3.  Only Special permissions were allowed to any of the users, so I gave SYSTEM, my user name and Administrators full control.
Without Roger Lu’s help and introducing me to Process Monitor, I would have never been able to figure this thing out.  Besides that, I now have
a great troubleshooting tool to use in the future.
Thanks, Roger!

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