Thursday, March 18, 2010

Deleting printers from the command line



There is an updated post on this topic available: Deleting local or network printers as well as printer drivers from the command line


To quickly and silently delete a printer using a command line, use the following command:

 rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dl /n "NAME_OF_PRINTER" /q

 This command will silently delete the printer and not issue any messages to the user (/q switch).

 There is much more you can do with this command, just enter the following to see the list of supported options:

 rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousMonday, January 27, 2014

    In Windows 7 you can do
    PrintUI.exe /dl /n "Descriptive name of prniter as in Control Panel" /q

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  2. UnknownFriday, April 04, 2014

    Thank you, this was helpful

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  3. Ranger BobMonday, April 11, 2016

    thanks bro, its helping..

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