

The Print Spooler service was started successfully. Navigate to Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections and delete the offending printer: The Print Spooler service was stopped successfully. Use the following steps to resolve this annoyance. If you want to tidy up those printers (removing ones you don’t use) you may find Windows 7 doesn’t let you delete them, even though you may be a local administrator and even if you use an elevated Explorer session: Many organisations push out printer installations via Active Directory. See my affiliate disclosure page for an explanation. In the interests of transparency: this is an affiliate link.

(If your computer runs Windows 10, you can find this wizard on the Devices - Printers and Scanners page of the Windows Settings window) 3. If you really want to understand what’s going on under the hood, the Windows Internals books are the place to start. On the computer from which you want to connect to this printer (in our case it was the Windows 2000 computer) use the built-in Add Printer wizard and choose the Add Local Printer option. It’s amazing to see that many years after I first wrote this post, visitors are still finding it useful!
