How to remove printer from windows 10

How to remove printer from Windows 10?

1 - Remove printer drivers manually

We are going to uninstall the device manually, for this we take the following steps:

In the start menu we look for Devices and printers Once there we are going to right-click on the printer we want to uninstall Click on the Remove device option and accept

2 - Stop the printing service

This is a more rigorous option, because we are going to disable any type of printing method in the operating system.

In the start menu we look for Services and we enter Once there we will see a long list of services in Windows 10, we will look for Print Queue We right click on Print Queue and disable it

3 - We remove it from the registry

A more advanced possibility is to delete the printer from the Windows registry.

For this we are going to open the Regedit Once in this tool we are going to look for the following path to the folder: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SYSTEM \ CurrentControlSet \ Control \ Print \ Print ersA folder should appear with the name of the printer that is creating the conflict, we do right click and we remove it

4 - Print management

The fourth way to remove the printing device from Windows 10 is by opening the Print Management application, you can find it by looking for it in the start menu.

On the left side we will see that there is a folder called Custom Filters p, we are going to open it In the subfolder we are going to All printers Here we are going to right-click and delete on the printer that creates the conflict

I hope this tutorial has been useful to you, see you in the next one.