| Subject: Unable to Remove Printers in Control Panel |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan |
| Date: 5/7/2008 10:44:26 AM |
| From: mishutka [Email Address Protection] |
I'm at my wits' end and don't know what to do next -- HELP! I have Vista Home Premium on a 36-bit computer. I unstalled a local USB Dell printer and it was working fine. Then it started printing tiny letters, then stopped printing at all and printer icons disappeared from the Control Panel. I used Windows Update and installed Service Pack 1. The printer icons are back, but there are now multiple copies of the printer which I'm unable to delete. At restart, the printer prints the same page each time. I went into Services, stopped and restarted the spooler to no effect. Would appreciate any thoughts on how to fix this. -- mishutka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mishutka's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48516 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=963633 http://forums.techarena.in |
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| Subject: Re: Unable to Remove Printers in Control Panel |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan |
| Date: 5/7/2008 11:37:27 AM |
| From: "Alan Morris [MSFT]" [Email Address Protection] |
right click on the printer Run as administrator Delete Only the Owner can delete the printer when not running as administrator and Plug and Play does not create the printer in the users context. -- Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here: http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1 This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. "mishutka" <mishutka.391ynd@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:mishutka.391ynd@DoNotSpam.com... > > I'm at my wits' end and don't know what to do next -- HELP! > > I have Vista Home Premium on a 36-bit computer. I unstalled a local USB > Dell printer and it was working fine. Then it started printing tiny > letters, then stopped printing at all and printer icons disappeared > from the Control Panel. > > I used Windows Update and installed Service Pack 1. The printer icons > are back, but there are now multiple copies of the printer which I'm > unable to delete. At restart, the printer prints the same page each > time. > > I went into Services, stopped and restarted the spooler to no effect. > Would appreciate any thoughts on how to fix this. > > > -- > mishutka > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > mishutka's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48516 > View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=963633 > > http://forums.techarena.in > |
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| Subject: Re: Unable to Remove Printers in Control Panel |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan |
| Date: 5/16/2008 4:11:56 AM |
| From: mishutka [Email Address Protection] |
I manually deleted the files from the .../spool/printers folder -- BUT there are 2 persistent .shd files that won't delete ("file is in use") even after reboot. Any ideas on how I can purge them? Many thanks! -- mishutka ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mishutka's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48516 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=963633 http://forums.techarena.in |
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| Subject: Re: Unable to Remove Printers in Control Panel |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan |
| Date: 5/16/2008 5:02:46 AM |
| From: .Joe [Email Address Protection] |
mishutka;713541 Wrote: > I manually deleted the files from the .../spool/printers folder -- BUT > there are 2 persistent .shd files that won't delete ("file is in use") > even after reboot. Any ideas on how I can purge them? Many thanks! > > > -- > mishutka > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > mishutka's Profile: 'mishutka's profile on TechArena Computer Hardware > Support Forums of India' > (http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=48516) > View this thread: 'Unable to Remove Printers in Control Panel - Vista > Print and Fax' (http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=963633) > > 'TechArena Community - Technology and Computer Hardware Support Forums > of India' (http://forums.techarena.in) Try booting into safe mode and then try deleting them. I had a similar issue with my printer and safe mode allowed me to delete the files. -- .Joe _[image: http://uswave.net/vistax64/joetmvx64.png] (\"http://uswave.net/vistax64/joetmvx64.png\")_ _*::Vista_Forums::* (\"http://www.vistax64.com/\")_ _Geekbench_Score:_4031 (\"http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/51273\")_ _CPU-Z (\"http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=345866\")_ |
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