Deleting Printers From Profile's

[Hayley78]

Hello All,

I am sure this is a simple soultion.
I want to be able to delete the printers in my users profile's with out having to get them to log in, and then deleting manually and then loggin in as Administrator to install the printer using the IP Address.
I would like to delete it from there profile while I am logged in as An Administrator. It eliminate having to have them there, for out of hours working.

The printers was originaly connected to the pc, by browsing to the server and then double clicking the shared printer to add them to the user's profile.

I want to run across and delete the printers that where installed this way so I can install them with connecting to the IP Address rather than the share to the server.

Thanks in Advance!!
Hayley

 

[linney]

See if there are any clues here?


Registry entries for printing

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q102966/

How to add, modify, or delete registry subkeys and values by using a registration entries (.reg) file

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310516

HOW TO: Create a Custom Default User Profile

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/319974

 

[kjv1611]

Hayley78,

Did you ever find a solution? If so, what worked for you?

 

[Hayley78]

I don't know if this is right or just luck...
I will need to test this on a couple more users before I would say this is the correct way of deleting printers on users profiles, without having them log in and delete them manually...

I browsed to the Registry key...
\Hkey_users\S-1-5-21-299107357-8889479068-421607344-331797\printers

I deleted the printers from here, and also the Key with the default printer.

I added the printers via IP address, and then asked the user to log in as herself. And the shared printers on her profile had dissappeared and the printers I have installed using the ip address where the only ones there!

 

[cdogg]

I believe the best way to do this from your login is to open the Registry editor and load each user's profile you want to modify. Loading the profile involves using the "Load Hive..." feature of regedit. If you're not familiar with that, you may want to research it and make backups of all NTUSER.DAT files before proceeding.

Once you have a user's profile loaded, you can edit their HKEY_CURRENT_USER by following the instructions here:

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2855/windows_xp_remove_any_network_printer_via_registry_editor/

Just remember to unload the hive after you're finished before rebooting.

~cdogg
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