I am facing some weird issues when trying to remove a printer from the users machines on my domain that was deployed with Group policy. When I try to remove it I get "access deny" message even tho I login as admin. The policy is targeting computers only. How can I accomplish this without going back to the policy and filtering users? Thanks in advance.
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Are the clients Windows 7 or 10? – user3788685 Dec 17 '17 at 16:18
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Windows 7 and XP PCs. – Levis Dec 17 '17 at 18:48
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Are the printers the defaults for the machines having problems? and are there any documents pending/printing when you try and delete? I've seen this with Win 10 but never got to the bottom of it. – user3788685 Dec 17 '17 at 19:09
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No pending dcomments. I'm going to try and deploy it to users instead and see if i get a different result-. Thank you guys. – Levis Dec 17 '17 at 23:26
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Stop / Cancel any pending print tasks for the printer Restart the print spooler service from the workstation and then try to remove it
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were you able to restart the print spooler service on the workstation? – Tom Jacob Chirayil Dec 21 '17 at 03:36
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@Levis If you had restarted the spooler service, you can try to remove the printer from the print management console in Administrative tools. Also, if this is happening with a network printer, try this script [link](https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/How-to-remove-all-network-d3979e18). Please note that the script will remove all network printers. You can add them back – Tom Jacob Chirayil Dec 21 '17 at 03:40