Remove button for printers missing on Win 11

Pete Keenan 0

The Remove button for removing printers from Window 11 is missing. Group policy is configured to allow printer addition and deletion. Printers added by a user do have the Remove Button for those printers but Group policy assigned printers do not.

Karlie Weng 18,581 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-08-06T02:54:40.4633333+00:00

Hi,

Checking in as it's been a few days since we heard from you. Can you please update us on your troubleshooting progress? Your response is appreciated.

Thanks.

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S.Sengupta 19,741 Reputation points MVP

2024-07-12T01:22:15.97+00:00

Ensure that policies like "Prevent deletion of printers" are either Not Configured or Disabled.

In Start Search type printmanagement.msc and hit the Enter Key.

Locate and delete the printer from there.

Use PowerShell to remove printers:

Open PowerShell as an administrator

Use the command: Get-Printer | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "PrinterName"} | Remove-Printer
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Pete Keenan 0 Reputation points

2024-07-12T13:21:15.52+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions. The policies mentioned are disabled as suggested. PS was runas administrator. Seems to be a permission issue. We'll continue to investigate.

Pete Keenan 0 Reputation points

2024-07-12T14:29:31.1533333+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions. Veified the policies mentioned were correct and PS was runas administrator with the above results. Found the comment above on Spiceworks which seems to explain the behavior (the Remove button when logged in as an administrator is present but does not work which seems consistent with the comment above). Thanks
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Karlie Weng 18,581 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-07-12T07:51:04.7933333+00:00

Hello,

You can try running printui.exe /dl /n "printername" in your CMD. This CMD is used in the Windows operating system to delete a printer.

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