how to manually open up printer port in vista?

[gen1mx6]

"Unhandled exception at 0x6cfe0a3b (msvcr80d.dll) in Project.exe: 0xC0000096: Privileged instruction."

trying output to a parallel port for my project and it seems i'm not allowed to... using visual studios 2005 under vista home basic 32 bit

[anders43]

You can't access the HW port directly in Vista.

You need to use a special HW library in order to do that.

E.g.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/winring0/

[gen1mx6]

have you used winring0 before? i was wondering it tells me to just
Add #include "OlsApi.h" statement to your source file.

since i've included the lib i shouldn't have to actually put the header file in my project right?
added library by-
went to properties/linker/additional libraries and added the folder that contains the .lib

because i'm getting a compiler error
fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'OlsApi.h': No such file or directory