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garg
Asked: 2011-06-17 10:30:58 +0800 CST

Deleting shared network printers from user accounts in XP

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If a regular user has added a printer by going to a share \\share and then right clicked on a printer and then clicked 'connect', how can that be removed by an administrator?

I have tried prnmngr.vbs and rundll32 commands but they do not affect printers added in this way. Is there a way that they can be removed via commandline without the use of a login/logoff script?

This is a Windows XP machine in a server 2003 domain.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I've had great luck with 

    rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /dn /q /n\\Server_Name\Share_name
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  2. Sometimes, the printui.dll method does not work - especially if the printer queue is no longer available on the server or currently not accessible. To remove client-connected printers in these cases, you might consider just deleting the appropriate values from the HKCU\Printers\Connections regkey.

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