Network printer reapparing after being deleted

[Eric Tremblay]

I have 2 network printers that keep coming back after I delete them.
The server that was providing the printers is now offline we have migrated
it to Windows 2008 and it has a new name.
I've reinstalled the "new" printers with the new windows 2008 server without
any problems

I've tried deleting the registry keys in HKCU HKLM and they keep coming back
when I restart the printer spooler service

 

[Eric Tremblay]

When I select Server Properties I get 4 tabs [forms] [port] [drivers]
[advanced]
...
I think you are refering to the Drivers tab and yes, the drivers have been
removed

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Are the connections created using a logon script?

If the printers were per machine connections added using rundll32 you will
need to use rundll32 to delete them

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterAllUsers.htm

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[Eric Tremblay]

They were created when we started "publishing printers" with Active
Directory, it worked great in a lab but gave a lot of people some blue
screens, we have deleted the printer entries in all of our GPO's.
I am the only one on the domain that is affected by this problem.

Here is what I've tried

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /gd "HP5000 on Server"
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /gd HP5000

The correct command line was
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /gd /n\\server\hp5000

Thanks a lot Alan
Cheers !