I ain’t even gonna pretend I knew how to do this. This annoys me that it was this difficult for me to figure out. I had to BING the damned thing in order to get it done.
The problem I had was that when you uninstall a printer, you don’t actually uninstall the driver/driver package associated with that printer. If you go ahead and reinstall the printer all over again, (like a network printer) it’ll just use what you’ve got installed on your system and you’re hosed.
SO WHAT TO DO IF YOU HAVE A CORRUPTED PRINTER DRIVER/PACKAGE
Basically, in order to remove a corrupted Printer Driver from Windows 7, you have to do the following:
- Run MMC from START—> RUN.
- Click File –> Add Remove Snap In
- Select Print Management
- Click the “Add Local server” button
- Click “Drivers” in the Print Management –> Print Servers –> YOURMACHINE (local) hierarchy
- Right click the Printer Driver/Package you want removed.
[Props go to eHow for showing me this little routine.]
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