How to delete printers in the Registry in Windows 7?
1 Answer
For local printers:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\Version-3\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\
For network printers:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Providers\LanMan Print Services\Servers\Printers\
Hope this helps
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Is this guaranteed by some documentation, or does it just happen to work on your particular system? If it is guaranteed, please link to references; if not, please state so in the answer.– userAug 15, 2014 at 13:22
Device and Printers
Rundll32 printui.dll, PrintUIEntry
which is the same as old Windows XP systems. Also, VBscript is very quick to delete printers, even thought those systems do not always works. see technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/ee624057%28v=ws.10%29.aspx