{"id":6816,"date":"2014-11-11T21:12:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T05:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6816"},"modified":"2014-11-09T21:19:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T05:19:53","slug":"how-to-delete-a-printer-that-keeps-coming-back-in-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/how-to-delete-a-printer-that-keeps-coming-back-in-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Delete a Printer That Keeps Coming Back in Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a printer configuration problem so I had to delete and then reinstall my printer. The trouble was, I would delete the printer and then it would magically come back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.community.dell.com\/support-forums\/peripherals\/w\/printers\/18.delete-print-jobs\">This solved my problem:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>look in this folder:<\/p>\n<p>C:\\Windows\\System32\\spool\\PRINTERS<\/p>\n<p>Is it empty?<\/p>\n<p>If not delete everything in the folder<\/p>\n<p>Restart your computer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a printer configuration problem so I had to delete and then reinstall my printer. The trouble was, I would delete the printer and then it would magically come back. &nbsp; This solved my problem: look in this folder: C:\\Windows\\System32\\spool\\PRINTERS Is it empty? If not delete everything in the folder Restart your computer &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}