Local Users and Groups in Vista Home Premium Not Available? Hi Neil,I agree that this is a problem, I have suffered it myself this very day - hence why I have found your post (in looking to see what others have done about it!). How To Add, Change, & Delete Registry Keys & Values The Right Way to Make Registry Changes in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, & XP Share Pin. Hi Robert, Thanks for the information in this article http://www.robertborges.us/2014/07/questions-answers/how-to-delete-a-user-profile-from-the-registry/. Fix for Cannot Remove or Delete Network Printer in Windows. If you work at an office, you probably have several printers added to your computer that are network printers, i. However, as you move around in the company or printers die out, that list has to be cleaned up every once in a while. Sometimes when you try to delete a network printer, you may get a message from Windows saying “Cannot delete network printer” and that’s it! Great, so now you have useless printers clogging up your printer list. Luckily, there is a way to remove any network printer from your computer via the registry. Note that you will have to be an Administrator in order to do this. Before you make any changes, make sure to read my post on backing up the Windows Registry. Resetting permissions on system files and registry keys after they are altered by a virus, malware, or corruption, is nearly impossible to accomplish manually. Have an account that you no longer need on your computer? You can delete it and still keep the desktop and personal files associated with the account by following. If you prefer not to mess with the registry, there is another possible solution that I list below that could also fix the problem, so be sure to scroll down. Remove Network Printers from Windows via Registry Editor. Step 1: Click on Start, Run and then type in regedit and press Enter. This will open the registry editor. Step 2: Navigate to the following key in the registry: HKEY. Unfortunately, that’s not all! You also have to delete the printer from one more location in the registry: HKEY. Go ahead and expand the print server key and delete the printer from the list. Now close the registry editor and reboot your computer. The undeletable network printer should now be gone! Note that the method above is just for network printers. ![]() If you have a local printer and want to remove it the same way via the registry, you need to go to the following registry keys below: HKEY. You can tell if a print job is stuck by going to the C: \Windows\System. PRINTERS\ folder and making sure it’s empty. If not, then you can follow my previous article on forcefully clearing the printer queue in Windows. Once you clear the printer queue, you should be able to delete the printer from your system. If you need to install the printer back onto your computer, check out my post on how to install a network printer on your home or office network. ![]() How to Delete USB Device History Windows 7/8/Vista/XP : Do you want to Remove all the Connected USB Devices History Permanently from your PC or Laptop? ![]()
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