They will stay stored in a local inventory if you need them again. However, you may not know that deleting a printer doesn’t delete its driver from Windows 10. Sure, you can delete the devices you do not need using the Settings app. After a while, you can end up with many printers installed on your computer without realizing it. Restart back to normal mode before installing the printer again.If you are a mobile user working with a laptop, there’s a good chance you connect to many printers in different locations, which you may only use once or twice. If the driver still will not remove, restart the computer in a diagnostic startup and then use the printui /s /t2 command to remove the driver package(s) (see Use Windows diagnostic mode to troubleshoot issues with Autodesk software). If a message appears about access denied or the printer being in use and the driver or any installed program is not found that would account for this, restart the computer. Windows XP does not have this extra choice. Note: Removing the driver package will clear all driver installation files for that device, leaving no reference to the printer that Windows could possibly use to auto-reinstall again. Select 'Remove driver and driver package' and click OK.Select the printer driver to uninstall.

Click the File menu and choose 'Server Properties.'.Click Start > Control Panel > Printers and Faxes.Select any printer and then click 'Print server properties' at the top of the window.From the Start menu or the Start screen:.Press the WINDOWS key on the keyboard to display the Start screen, type in printui /s /t2 and then click it in the search list.Press WINDOWS-R on the keyboard to bring up the Run window, type in printui /s /t2 and then press Enter or click OK.Click the Start menu and in the search field type printui /s /t2 and then press Enter or click it in the search list.Open the Print Server Properties dialog window by doing one of the following:.To completely remove printer driver files from a system: Not doing these before attempting to remove the driver files may result in an 'access denied' or 'printer in use' error.

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