There are seemingly simple tasks that often become quite complicated in Windows. In this case, the topic is how to uninstall printer drivers in Windows Vista. As always, Windows News brings you another short tutorial so you can resolve these everyday issues in Microsoft's operating system. It's important to remove printer drivers when the printer starts behaving strangely or if you have accumulated too many printers that you no longer use. This prevents driver conflicts, especially when using printers in your work environment, where time is of the essence.
These drivers are stored and are required files. If we are not going to use the printer, it is best to remove its drivers easily and quickly. We are going to find the devices that are not connected to remove them:
- We will open the Start menu from the desktop to type «cmd.exe» in the search engine and press «Ctrl»+«Shift«+«Enter»At the same time, this will run the command line as administrator.
- Open the CMD, we will write the following text: SET DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES = 1
- We will press «Enter» once we have written the text and the device manager will open.
- We search and click on the option «Show hidden devices»In the menu titled as« view »of the Device Manager, to find the one we are looking for.
- Now we select that printer that we are no longer interested in to easily click on «uninstall»And wait a few seconds for the process to finish, usually quite fast.
- Previously, we must click on "yes" to confirm the removal of the driver when the system asks us through the pop-up window.
And this is how we can eliminate the drivers of printers that we no longer use and are not connected in Windows Vista, although this utility is identical in Windows 7, easily and quickly.