Computer

tirsdag 3. februar 2009

Removal of a Windows Printer Driver

This article was previously published under Q81626
To remove all information from your system concerning a specific Windows printer driver, do the following:
  1. Run Control Panel.
  2. Double-click the Printers icon.
  3. Select the printer to be removed.
  4. Choose the Configure button.
  5. Choose the Remove button. This removes the printer from the Installed Printers list.
  6. From the File Manager or MS-DOS, delete the driver file (.DRV file) corresponding to the removed printer. Refer to the table below for information on specific printers and their corresponding driver files.
  7. Edit the [Windows] section of the WIN.INI file and remove the information following the "Device=" line. (This line contains information about the current default printer). For example, change
    Device=Postscript Printer, Pscript, lpt1: 

    to: 

    Device=
  8. Remove the section of the WIN.INI file that contains information about the specific printer driver. The title of this section contains the name of the printer and the port to which it was initially configured. For example:
    [PostScript,LPT1]
    device=16
    feed1=1
    feed15=1
    orient=2
  9. Exit Windows. Restart Windows.
  10. The following list contains supported Windows 3.0 printers and their corresponding printer driver files.
  11. Check file list here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/81626
By