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How to delete printer driver without removing printer? RRS feed

  • Question

  • Hello,

    How to delete printer driver without removing printer by print management console in windows server 2012?

    Wednesday, November 19, 2014 6:50 AM

Answers

  • Carefully edit the registry and restart the spooler.  Not really a good solution. Delete the printer, then delete the driver.  If someone is hanging onto a reference to the object stop and start spooler, then kill explorer if there are still references to the driver files.


    Alan Morris formerly with Windows Printing Team

    • Proposed as answer by Justin Gu Thursday, November 20, 2014 2:15 AM
    • Marked as answer by Justin Gu Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:24 PM
    Thursday, November 20, 2014 2:06 AM
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