Windows 7 How to delete obsolete printer listings from the Printer Selection Window

zvit

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• Apr 26, 2011

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Right click the printers you don't want and choose delete.

 

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Thomas Hunscher

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You know, I'm a pretty sophisticated user. I am here because they keep coming back. They don't stay gone. After deleting them from Printers and Hardware in Control Panel I'm still looking at dead copies when I go to print out a document.

 

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Thomas;
Hello and welcome to the forum.
Try device manager change the view to show hidden devices see if you can uninstall unwanted printers from there.
Failing that
Regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers
When editing the registry back it up, export key to desktop for safe keeping, create a system restore point manually.
Hope this helps
Regards
Randy

 

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Since Printers do not show up in device Manager, this post is N/A.

 

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zvit

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Thomas Hunscher said:

You know, I'm a pretty sophisticated user. I am here because they keep coming back. They don't stay gone. After deleting them from Printers and Hardware in Control Panel I'm still looking at dead copies when I go to print out a document.

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I'm sorry. You are a new user and I checked your "about" and "experience" page but there was no information there so I had no idea what your computer skills are. I'm sorry about that.

Do what Randy suggested and get back if you need further assistance.

 

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