[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. 

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Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 11:46 AM
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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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