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Thursday, December 9, 2010

How to manually remove a windows printer driver

      1. Examine print driver properties, record file names.
2. Stop print spooler
3. Goto registry: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\WindowsNT 4. X86\Drivers\Version-X\<printer driver name> Version-x where x is 1,2,3. (3 is for windows 2000 and higher drivers.). Printer driver name is the literal name of the printer driver
4. Delete that Key.
5. Go to %systemroot%\system32\spool\drivers\platform. Where platform is going to be “intel” and the subfolder is “w32x86” and the subfolder “3” for windows 2000 and higher drivers.
6. Delete the recorded files.
7. Start the print spooler service.