How To Remove Printer Drivers In Vista

 

Free Download Tema Hp Nexian G801. Mar 19, 2012  Conde's Tech Support Manager, Vicky Waldrop demonstrates how to completely uninstall and remove a printer driver from your PC. Check out http://www.conde.com. Canon Lbp2900b Driver Download For Windows 7 64 Bit. In case you right click on a printer and delete it, this doesn't get rid of the printer driver from the system. Often when working with print servers and testing several drivers, you need to have to completely get rid of a driver package from the system, so it is possible to install a brand new or a different one.

How To Remove Printer Drivers In Vista

I recently bought two HP computers with Windows Vista Home Premium on them. I have been attempting to uninstall some print drivers to install new versions. I'm unable to do this. I receive an error that the drivers are in use 'Failed to remove driver Canon MF6500 Series UFRII LT. The specified printer driver is currently in use'. It doesn't matter which print driver I attempt to delete the message is the same. After a couple of hours on the phone with both Canon and HP, we're all stumped as to why I'm unable to delete any these print drivers.

I have no problem deleting them from XP, but niether Vista system will allow it. Any help out there? A client of mine is having the same issue. For me this printer was never locally attached but a shared printer on the domain directory had been its orignally installation source. We wanted to move the print device so that it was instead shared from a different place in the office. This meant it was to be from the Vista Biz machine. After removing the printer and associated print device from the XP machine it was relocated.

Hp 7585b Driver Download on this page. Still having yet attached the USB cable I ran the installer to put the driver onto Vista. It alerted me that an older driver exists and needed removed.

So I went first through Printer into Server Properties as Administrator and attempted to remove the listed Canon driver. It is the same MF6500 as you mentioned, the multifunction printer/scanner/copier is model 6530 specifically. I also received the same 'can't do it - it in use message'.

So I cannot install the software as I cannot remove some artifact that is being stubborn. I decided to call the manufacturer, Canon, for support. After spending an hour or so with someone in Virginia I was unable to remove the driver. This tech could not grasp the scenario I just articualated and the whole experience was a bit frustratrating. So I've tried some other ideas but none has worked. Since this printer was shared the tech believed that some print job was hanging up the process and that I would have to physically check every machines print spooler to be assured of success. As of now that effort hasn't paid off but I have a lot of PC's to check still.

This is a very painful experience. There has to be a smarter way of managing print drivers so that an administrator can force the removal of a driver and/or trace the print job that is holding it up. ***update*** Day 2 brings victory to the battlefield OK a little dramatic title but it has been a contest of wills. This Vista machine had 12 different user profiles that I had to go through one by one and look for and remove the artifact of the previosly AD published Canon printer. Once the last profile had it removed it would then allow me to fully remove the driver package.