Running into printers which should be deleted ages ago or causing all sorts of random issues like randomly appearing after deleting them, I think at some point we have all ran into that.
After a while I’ve found an article which guided me to a location in the registry where these guys were just hanging around, waiting to pop-up again. So I’ve created a script to deal with them.
First of all you do need PsExec (available on Microsoft Docs) since it is a SYSTEM protected location. Then execute Powershell ISE with the “PsExec.exe -s -i Powershell_ISE” command.
Then paste the following script and edit the ‘PrinterName’ variable;
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$PrinterReg = Get-ChildItem -Path 'HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\SWD\PRINTENUM\*' $PrinterName = "\\SERVER\Printer Name" Foreach ($DeletePrinter in $PrinterReg){ $FriendlyName = $DeletePrinter.GetValue("Friendlyname") if($FriendlyName -eq $PrinterName){ Remove-Item -path $DeletePrinter.PSPath -Recurse Write-Host "Removing $friendlyname from $($DeletePrinter.PSPath)" }} |
That should be it!
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