If you have any problems with printing, first thing that comes to mind of many more or less experienced PC users is how to uninstall printer driver from windows 7. Indeed, uninstalling and then installing the driver may very well solve many problems that concern your device. This article will discuss how to uninstall printer driver from Windows 7 operating system. Despite the seemingly banality and simplicity of this action, very often various difficulties arise, which this article will discuss. There are situations that when you remove the printer from the system, you may encounter many errors. The printer may refuse to be deleted, or “not completely” will be deleted, new driver refuses to install, and after installation, instead of a working print, it gives an error like “Driver is not fully installed, and some printing functions will be unavailable”. Panic in this situation is not worth it, because there is always the opportunity to format computer’s hard drive, reinstall the operating system and all related software. We will tell you how to make it simpler without resorting to such tough actions. Follow the steps below to correctly resolve an existing problem
- First we removed printer in “Devices and Printers”
- Then we stopped print spooler
- In registry we opened
51 ign in HKEY LOCAL MACHINEISYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control Print\Environments Windows x64 Print o vote Processors
- We renamed all Print Processors that were listed. Like Winprint to Winprint.old. Hpcpp107 to
Hpcpp107.old, and so o
- We started print spooler
- Removed driver pack in Print Management MMC
- Reopened registry location
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEMICurrentControlSet Control\ Print Environments Windows x64\Print Processors
- Renamed back all Print Processors back to Winprint.old to Winprint, Hpcpp107.old to Hpcpp107,
and so on…
- Restart print spooler
- Installed new printer drivers
- Tested printing