This will not harm anything. Now you need to start the spooler again. Go back to the Command Prompt and type net start spooler , press Enter. Please get back to us with the status of the issue. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse.
This works. So why can't it be done in Word which we pay a fortune for as part of Office yet it can be done in the free Notepad!
Head in hands moment! The problem here is that Word does not use the standard Windows dialog box for printing; instead, it makes use of a custom dialog box File Print which does not let you "manipulate" the printers in the same way that NotePad does. That works for me too using Notepad.
Took me a long time to catch this. What a round about way. As suggested earlier in this thread, start NotePad, display the Print dialog box and delete the printers from there. Thank you so much!
You are the first person to actually answer the question of this thread. These old ghost printers persist within Word and other Office apps and do not show up in the normal System "Printers and Scanners" dialog box. I think that is why the MS help people could not grasp why their suggestions did not work.
You can't fix this using the normal tools. You can not delete a ghost printer that does not appear in the "Printers and Scanners" dialog. For those having this ghost or duplicate printer problem:. See even these old utility programs have their uses. So old or simple they just bypass the problems.
No, it is not. See the Notepad Trick in the rest of this thread for a workaround fix that works for everybody. It will get rid of ghost and duplicate printers listed in Office apps, like Word yet do not appear in the Printer and Scanners dialog, Admin Tools, or Print Management. I say this because I wasted hours trying the conventional suggestions, the Notepad trick fixed it in seconds.
This small change of configuration straightened the list accordingly in Word as well! Thank you guys for your inputs posted here. It's really helpful. If deleting the printer in Control Panel or Windows Settings does not work, try deleting it from the Print dialog box in NotePad, as suggested earlier in this thread.
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