Printers showing as "HP LaserJet M101-M106

Question

Noticed this yesterday on multiple machines,

When viewing devices in the old Devices and Printers window, the printer icons are all HP printers including the built in Windows ones such as "Microsoft Print to PDF", and the "Model" also reads "HP LaserJet M101-M106" for all of them.

When viewing the Printer Properties, the driver and everything is accurate, so I'm thinking this is just a bug that was pushed out by Microsoft.

Is anyone experiencing this issue ?

Answer 1

Hi

How do we fix this ?

Answer 2

I have the same problem. Additionally, when I double click on one of the printer icons, a window opens and a message displays: No Tasks are available on this page

Answer 3

Shoveled everything I could. Unfortunately, I did not find which driver, the parameter that changes this data. As a result, I had to completely remove and replace a computer where there was no such problem, the registry branch:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print

and the folder:

C:\Windows\System32\spool

And only then everything became normal as it was and during the update it no longer crashed...

Answer 4

Good day

I have also experienced exact same issue as all the rest.

I tried several system restore points and uninstalled certain windows updates with no luck at all!

After some update the HP printer icons changed to missing icons for 2 devices and my Printer icons changed to yellow folders??

I just hope Microsoft can fix this issue a.s.a.p.!!!

Answer 5

The same here. New PC. Windows 10 22H2 installed yesterday!