[THIN] Re: How to strip down PS4 to default printer drivers only

Alternatively, reinstall from original media. Just like "I say we take
off and nuke the site from orbit", it's the only way to be sure. 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Evan Mann
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:18 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] RE: [THIN] Re: How to strip down PS4 to default printer
drivers only

I want to make sure every little last piece of a 3rd party driver is
gone.  All the info I've found involves this manual process. 

-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Philip Walley
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:46 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: How to strip down PS4 to default printer drivers
only

why not just uninstall all the unneeded drivers?


Evan Mann wrote:
> I'd like to strip down PS4 back to it's original default installed 
> printers.  I can see 2 ways to do this:
>  
> 1) Delete C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\*.* and every entry

> in the registry under
> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT
> x86\Drivers\Version-2 and \Version-3 and then re-install UPD and other

> native drivers I want to use
>  
> or
>  
> 2) Delete selective files for all non-default installed drives in 
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\ and the corresponding 
> registry keys.
>  
> To do number 2, I'd need a list of the actual files that correspond to

> the default drivers and to not delete those.  This sounds lengthy, so 
> I'm thinking option 1 is the way to go. The question is, will I break 
> something if I do exactly what I describe in step 1?
>  
> Additionally, what other things may I need to do?  It seems like there

> are a few HP entries under
> HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT 
> x86\Print Processors. I assume these need to go?  What about
"ModPrint"
> and "winprint" from this registry key.
>
> Any other ideas on how to do this, aside from reloading the entire 
> server.
>
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