How Do I Totally Remove a Printer

[FrenchTVR]

I need to totally remove all traces of an HP Designjet printer from my PC but i'm not sure what is the best way? I think that some of the drivers etc are corrupted and it has been driving me nuts for a while now. Having tried the printer on our laptop I know that the printer is fine so it must be the drivers etc at the PC end.
If I do a delete from the printers folder it still leaves all of the drivers and support files.

Any help greatly appreciated before I

[Plotloss]

Through Device Manager.

Right click My Computer and Select Manage

Its in there.

Various options from that screen, refresh drivers, uninstall, reinstall etc etc.

[FrenchTVR]

Excellent thank you, never found the hidden stuff before..Doh.

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to have cured my problem.
I uninstalled the printer. reloaded the HP software, which asked if I wanted to keep or replace the original driver. I replaced it and it all installed ok. When I tired to send the test page the display on the printer came up with this again:

Warning 61.05
Error Processing Job
Flushing rest of job.

Warning: 0x70f0002
task: tSwitcher
file: pm_utils.c
line: 144

Does this mean anything to anyone? I have had the error code repeatedly. I have been to the HP site and it lists it as being a print head fault. I have replaced the print heads, gone all through their other listed items with no success. It must be a fault on my machine as it ran perfectly from the laptop.

Cheers,

[agent006]

Or:

Open your printers folder
Rightclick on the blank space
Select Server Properties
Slect the Drivers tab
delete whichever driver you don't want.

[mcflurry]

Does the LPT port (assuming you have a parallel printer) have ECP and/or EPP mode enabled in the Bios on the desktop?

Some BIOS default to SPP and cannot handle modern printers...

[tonytonitone]

Uninstall Printer and Reboot..

Run regedit and browsedelete any HP KeysValues..

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionPrint

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPrintPrinters

Be carful and make sure you dont delete Print & Printers or anything above