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pacmanfourtwenty   10-27-2008 at 08:54:35 PM

Hi i work at a company and my computer has a brother hl-2400 installed it crapped out and quit working i downloaded the brother uninstall tool to get rid of the drivers and i hit uninstall and it doesnt unstill them....also when i go to the printer UI in windows and right click and delete the printer is just stuck at deleting the icon is also tranparant almost as if its a temporary????? any suggestion or ways to manaully delete the driver files

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kamel5547   10-27-2008 at 09:17:44 PM
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Reboot the PC...

Also, to remove the drivers without their tool:
1) open printers
2) file->server properties
3) Select driver, delte

However, the printer must be dleeted from all user profiles before this will work (at least if its network based, not sure about local printers). Kinda a catch-22 if you can't delete it.

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Zorg   10-27-2008 at 09:22:10 PM
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Try deleting them in safe mode.

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pacmanfourtwenty   10-27-2008 at 09:25:00 PM
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its actually my boss's computer im going to wait for him to get done and try these suggestions but i was wondering is there a place where windows stores all the installed drivers mayber somewhere in system 32??

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toosober   10-27-2008 at 09:31:34 PM
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Check this key in the registry for installed printers. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers AND
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections

Deleting the sub keys matching your printer will make it go away.


Message edited by toosober on 10-27-2008 at 09:32:12 PM
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pacmanfourtwenty   10-27-2008 at 10:26:58 PM
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thx toosober it worked like a charm

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