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Local computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Printers -> “Disallow installation of printers using kernel-mode drivers” set it to disable Next step is to set the following settings: Start Group Police Editor pressing Windows key + R and type gpedit.msc Rmdir /S /Q c:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\圆4 Rmdir /S /Q c:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\W32X86

After this you can run it and it will delete the required files.Įcho Remove printer driver files from WindowsĮcho WARNING: If you continue you have toĮcho Deleting printer driver directories.

NOTE: If you can’t delete them you need to stop printer spool service from service manager, and after deleting start the service againįor this purpose I also made a cmd script that dose this for you, copy the code and past it into a file and name it delprint.cmd. The folders you have to delete are as follows: Here are the steps I took to get it workingįirs of all you have to delete the previous printer drivers, so because of this after this process previous printers need to be reinstalled. This process should work also with other printers.

After a while googling I found out that windows 10 blocks older drivers and because of that you had to set some setting in windows group police editor. The printer driver is not compatible with a policy enabled on your computer that blocks NT 4.0 drivers”.

To obtain a driver that is compatible with the version of Windows you are running, contact the manufacturer.“ and after this there was another message “ Windows cannot connect to the printer. The printer in question was a Sharp AR5316E and the error message was the following: “ Windows can’t install the kernel-mode print driver. So I had a problem at work: a client had a pretty old printer and after a Windows 10 update they couldn’t install its driver.