Unable to Remove Printers in Control Panel
I'm at my wits' end and don't know what to do next -- HELP!
I have Vista Home Premium on a 36-bit computer. I unstalled a local USB Dell printer and it was working fine. Then it started printing tiny letters, then stopped printing at all and printer icons disappeared from the Control Panel.
I used Windows Update and installed Service Pack 1. The printer icons are back, but there are now multiple copies of the printer which I'm unable to delete. At restart, the printer prints the same page each time.
I went into Services, stopped and restarted the spooler to no effect. Would appreciate any thoughts on how to fix this.
Re: Unable to Remove Printers in Control Panel
right click on the printer
Run as administrator
Delete
Only the Owner can delete the printer when not running as administrator and
Plug and Play does not create the printer in the users context.
Re: Unable to Remove Printers in Control Panel
Make sure you delete any pending print jobs. The printer cannot be deleted
until the print jobs are deleted.
Re: Unable to Remove Printers in Control Panel
You might have to navigate to ...\spool\printers in Windows explorer and
delete all the file there if you have not already).
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Re: Unable to Remove Printers in Control Panel
Try booting into safe mode and then try deleting them. I had a similar
issue with my printer and safe mode allowed me to delete the files.