Remove Multiple Devices

Question

Is it possible to remove multiple Printers / devices from Windows 7 in one step?

Answer 1

Hi

Yes, you can delete multiple printer drivers at once. Follow the below steps:

a.     Click on start

b.     Type in cmd in the start search

c.      Right click on the cmd.exe option and select Run as administrator

d.     Type in: printui /s /t2

e.     Printer server properties page opens

f.       Press CTRL+ Click of mouse and select all the printer drivers you want to uninstall

g.     Select remove

For devices you may open devices and printers and remove one device at a time. Link, refer the section removing a printer: Install a printer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Install-a-printer

Regards:

Samhrutha G S - Microsoft Support.

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Answer 2

Open a command line CMD and type in this command:

wmic printer where "LOCAL=FALSE" delete

it will delete any network printer you may have

Answer 3

I found the answer to this by accident... you can do it through the Printer Managment MMC snap-in.

1. Click Start, type MMC in the Start Search box, and then clickMMC in the Programs list
2. On the File menu, click Add/Remove Snap-in.
3. In the Available snap-ins list, click Print Management, and then clickAdd. You may have to wait several seconds for the snap-in to be added.
4. In the Configure Print Management window, click "Add the Local Server"
5. Click Finish.
6. Click OK.
7. In the Print Management Snap-In expand Print Management, Print Servers, YourServer (local)
8. Click on Printers
9. In the list of printers you can now select and delete multiple printers at once

Answer 4

Click Start, type Shell:PrintersFolder<Enter> (wait until it finds the cmd)

From this folder you can select multiple printers with mouse click, or <Ctrl>A, and then delete the selected printers at the same time.

Best regards,

Dave S.

Answer 5

Using the MMC snap-in only works for printers that aren't coming from a server connection. If I set up a direct IP connection or usb connection versus connecting to \server\printqueue for example. I can't see or delete the \server\printqueue printer in the MMC snap-in so this is still an issue and pretty sad that I can't just select a group of printers and delete them.

I found a way to do this via wmi.

Running the command wmic printer where "Local='FALSE'" delete /nointeractive will remove server based printers.  If you set "local='true'", it will remove local printers. If you leave off the /nointeractive, you get prompted for confirmation to delete each printer.