![]() That's dangerous and I might not get everything Windows considers part of the driver. Now I know it's possible to remove drivers with the spooler service stopped and then going into the spool directory, as well as deleting registry entries. It's a shared network printer so maybe that has something to do with it not being there. The printer is not visible in Device Manager. Opening an empty mmc, adding the Print Management snap-in, and attempting to do the above (also fails with a "driver in use" error).ĭoing sc stop spooler and sc start spooler before doing both of the above. Removing the printer from Devices and Printers (doesn't remove driver obviously).ĭoing the above, going into Server Properties, and attempting to remove the driver (fails with a "driver in use" error). I've had occasion to need to do this on a user's system running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit. This is a domain environment and drivers are pulled from a print server. One of the troubleshooting steps in resolving printer-related issues with any version of Windows is to remove installed print drivers and then reinstall the drivers. ![]()
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