Monday, August 19, 2013

How to delete Printer drivers from Driver Store \ Filerepository (C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository).

How to delete Printer drivers from Driver Store \ Filerepository(C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository).

1.Open a command prompt that has administrator privileges. Click Start, All Programs, and Accessories, then right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.

Note: The PnPUtil command-line tool does not work unless you run the command prompt as an administrator.

2. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Yes.

3. At the command prompt, type the command:
    pnputil.exe –e (or)  pnputil –e

Select, list of drivers shown in that list, To confirm that the driver package and the .inf that you are going to remove is a third-party one (Microsoft does not allow u to remove their things from the driver store)

3. At the command prompt, type the command:
    pnputil.exe -d Oem#.inf (or) pnputil -d Oem#.inf

Note: Make sure to replace the # with the number of the .inf file you want to remove.