{"id":2535,"date":"2021-07-03T12:54:34","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2021-07-03T12:54:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T20:54:34","slug":"win10-printers-keep-coming-back-not-deleting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2021\/07\/03\/win10-printers-keep-coming-back-not-deleting\/","title":{"rendered":"Win10 printers keep coming back, not deleting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a printer keeps coming back try this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techjourney.net\/failure-unable-to-delete-or-remove-printer-driver-package-currently-in-use\/\">https:\/\/techjourney.net\/failure-unable-to-delete-or-remove-printer-driver-package-currently-in-use\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or (maybe and)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The only solution for me was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Downloading PSTools<\/li>\n<li>Running CMD as administrator<\/li>\n<li>Run the command <code>psexec -i -s c:\\windows\\regedit.exe<\/code> (make sure you don&#8217;t have regedit open already, otherwise it gives an error)<\/li>\n<li>Delete all keys under <code>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Enum\\SWD\\PRINTENUM<\/code> which contained the printer name that keeps coming back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You have to use the PStools option, because otherwise you will get an access denied error when deleting the regkeys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serverfault.com\/questions\/604161\/deleted-printers-keeps-coming-back-and-multiply\">https:\/\/serverfault.com\/questions\/604161\/deleted-printers-keeps-coming-back-and-multiply<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/downloads\/pstools\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/downloads\/pstools<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a printer keeps coming back try this: https:\/\/techjourney.net\/failure-unable-to-delete-or-remove-printer-driver-package-currently-in-use\/ Or (maybe and) The only solution for me was: Downloading PSTools Running CMD as administrator Run the command psexec -i -s c:\\windows\\regedit.exe (make sure you don&#8217;t have regedit open already, otherwise it gives an error) Delete all keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Enum\\SWD\\PRINTENUM which contained the printer name that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}