We several months back replaced the main network printer due too it jamming excessively, and for the first month or 2 everything has worked fine. Now one of the computers has begun too re-add the old printers too itself for no reason i can see. Every time I remove it, it will respawn again.
Printers are shared from and pushed out from the DC, and i have removed the driver and all instances of the old printers from here, and the group policy which pushes out printers are only pushing out the correct ones, but this pc ONLY adds a bunch more (Including duplicates of the new one)
I have tried :
Removing them from the really useless "printers and scanners" UI within windows 10.
Uninstalling them from device manager.
Deleting everything from printers and even all the drivers from
C:\Windows\System32\Spool\Driversand all from the print queue.Checking if they are in registry (Couldn't see them there)
Removing the computer from the domain and putting it back on.
Different users.
Checked appwiz.cpl for any software which might be adding them back due to old config.
Checked startup for anything which could be re-adding them.
And none of these things have had any impact on the issue.
I checked properties in device manager on them to see what is adding them and all I got was
Under location:
\Users\S-1-5-21-1288031120-1378624092-2130640294-1174\Printers\^\^\[DC name]^
And when i go under details configuration ID says:
printqueue.inf:PRINTENUM\LocalPrintQueue,NO_DRV_LOCAL
When I go into notepad and try too print to one of these they are not visible.
What am i missing here? Is this just a particularly irksome windows 10 bug again, or is there another way to remove these printers that I've not tried?
