Removing a Printer from the Printers and Faxes Folder


You might want to remove a printer setup for several reasons:

  • The physical printer has been removed from service.

  • You don't want to use a particular network printer anymore.

  • You had several definitions of a physical printer using different default settings, and you want to remove one of them.

  • You have a nonfunctioning or improperly functioning printer setup and want to remove it and start over by running the Add Printer Wizard.

In any of these cases, the approach is the same:

1.

Be sure you are logged on with Administrator privileges.

2.

Open the Printers and Faxes folder.

3.

Be sure nothing is in the print queue. You have to clear the queue for the printer before deleting it. If you don't, Windows will try to delete all jobs in the queue for you, but it unfortunately isn't always successful.

4.

Select the printer icon you want to kill, and choose File, Delete (or press the Del key).

5.

Depending on whether the printer is local or remote, you see one of two different dialog boxes. One asks whether you want to delete the printer; the other asks whether you want to delete the connection to the printer. In either case, click Yes. The printer icon or window disappears from the Printers and Faxes folder.

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The removal process removes only the virtual printer setup from the Registry for the currently logged-in user. The related driver file and font files are not deleted from the disk. Therefore, if you ever want to re-create the printer, you don't have to insert disks or respond to prompts for the location of driver files. On the other hand, if you are having problems with the driver, deleting the icon won't delete the bad driver. Use the New Driver tool on the Advanced properties tab to solve the problem in this case.




Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows XP Professional (3rd Edition)
ISBN: 0789732807
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 450

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