Great, thanks for the update.
Regards,
Deleting a driver package?
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Will deleting a driver package from an old Canon MX920 and removing all traces of it have any affect on my current Canon TR7620a installation, or does the installation of a new printer of the same manufacturer share some leftover files or DDL's with a printer that has been formerly deleted using a conventional deletion process which may leave drivers from the old printer on the hard drive..
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Anonymous
2025-03-09T00:20:16+00:00 I took a shot and deleted the drivers using the terminal admin and get-printerdrivers command and then remove-printerdriver command after typing in the name of the drives I wanted to delete.
There was no problem and my TR7620a worked fine after that.
Thanks for the reply
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Ramesh Srinivasan 81,535 Reputation points Independent Advisor2025-03-08T22:44:34+00:00 Hi, This is Ramesh.
Deleting the Canon MX920 driver package shouldn't affect the installation of a different printer, Canon TR7620a.
You can use Driver Store Explorer to remove the old driver package.
https://github.com/lostindark/DriverStoreExplorer
You may export (backup) the driver(s) to a folder before deleting the Canon printer driver. An Export option is provided in that tool.
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