[THIN] RE: [THIN] Re: How to strip down PS4 to default printer drivers only
- From: Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:17:56 -0400
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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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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