如果您一直连接到多个位置的不同打印机，您可能不会使用设备上安装的所有打印机 - 可能只使用一次或两次。但是，您的设备最终会在您没有意识到的情况下安装许多打印机。(many printers installed)

值得庆幸的是，您可以删除不再使用的任何打印机，除非它不会完全从您的设备中删除 - 打印机驱动程序保留在您设备的库存中，以防您再次需要它。

如果您确定不需要它，您可以从您的设备中删除或卸载旧的、过时的或已卸载的打印机驱动程序(old, obsolete or uninstalled printer drivers)，以及剩余的驱动程序包或注册表项。

我们将向您介绍在Windows 10中完全卸载打印机驱动程序的五种方法。

以下是您可以在Windows 10(Windows 10)中删除打印机驱动程序的几种方法：

如果您不再需要特定的打印机，您可以按照通常的步骤从“设置”(Settings)中卸载打印机，然后卸载其软件，尤其是在使用第三方实用程序时。 

如果设置(Settings)应用程序安装了其他工具来自动管理您的打印机，则您必须手动删除剩余的软件。

注意：(Note: )上述步骤仅从列表中删除打印机，因此您需要删除所有剩余的打印机软件或相关应用程序。

如果您仍然看到旧打印机或您之前卸载的打印机出现在打印机(Printers)和扫描仪(Scanners)页面上，您可以删除或卸载打印机驱动程序和驱动程序包。

您可以使用以下步骤从控制面板(Control Panel)中删除和卸载您的打印机和剩余的打印机驱动程序或相关应用程序。

理想情况下，如果您使用上述打印服务器(Print Server)属性方法，它应该删除并卸载打印机驱动程序。但是，您可以使用打印管理(Print Management)控制台完全删除不再使用的打印机及其驱动程序。

“打印管理(Print Management)”对话框显示设备上的打印机和当前打印作业。不过，在删除旧的打印机驱动程序之前，请确保它没有被任何其他打印机使用。

如果您打开“添加打印机(Add a printer )”页面并发现旧打印机仍然列在此处，请编辑注册表以删除剩余条目。为此，首先创建一个系统还原点(creating a system restore point)，然后按照以下步骤操作。

找到注册表项：

接下来，转到此键：

某些子项可能仍然引用您的旧打印机，因此您也可以清除以下内容：        

完成后，退出注册表编辑器(Registry Editor)。

如果您喜欢命令行，命令提示符(Command Prompt)是另一种可用于删除打印机并删除相关驱动程序和应用程序的工具。

如果您更喜欢PowerShell而不是命令提示符(Command Prompt)，请按照以下步骤删除打印机和相关软​​件。

此解决方案旨在删除即使在删除驱动程序包后仍可能在您的设备上的任何驱动程序残余。

在驱动程序商店中，您会找到收件箱和第三方驱动程序包，它们甚至在驱动程序本身安装之前就已安装并存储在文件夹中。 

商店中的每个子文件夹都包含一个驱动程序包和相应的.inf 文件(.inf file)，但要找到您要删除的特定驱动程序包有点困难。

好消息是您可以使用第三方工具来探索Windows 驱动程序商店(Windows driver store)并彻底删除旧的打印机驱动程序。它还将为您节省大量空间，否则这些空间将被垃圾文件占用。

设备驱动程序是一种软件，它告诉您的计算机操作系统如何与其连接的设备进行通信。 

例如，要连接到您的打印机(connect to your printer)并执行打印命令，需要打印机驱动程序来弥合两个设备之间的差距，并将打印作业交付给您。

如果没有打印机驱动程序，您的打印机只是无法工作的硬件。同样，从计算机中删除打印机后删除打印机驱动程序会使其无法运行。

但是，如果您删除驱动程序，您可以使用系统还原从您从计算机中删除驱动程序时创建的上一个还原点撤消删除。

或者，Windows将通过从其广泛的驱动程序库中搜索来自动在您的操作系统上安装驱动程序。如果没有找到合适的驱动程序，它将通过Windows Update在线搜索驱动程序。否则(Otherwise)，您可以访问设备制造商的网站以查找适用于您的打印机的特定驱动程序。

If you connect tо differеnt printеrs аcross several locations all the time, you’ll рrobably nоt use all of the prіnters installed on your device – probably just once or twice. Howeνer, your device ends up with many printers installed on it without you realizing it.

Thankfully, you can remove any printer you’re no longer using, except it doesn’t completely get erased from your device – the printer driver remains in your device’s inventory in case you need it again.

If you’re sure you won’t need it, you can remove or uninstall old, obsolete or uninstalled printer drivers, and leftover driver packages or registry entries from your device.

We’re going to walk you through five ways to completely uninstall printer drivers in Windows 10.

These are a few of the ways you can remove printer drivers in Windows 10:

If you don’t need a particular printer anymore, you can follow the usual steps to uninstall a printer from Settings and then uninstall its software, especially if using a third-party utility. 

If the Settings app installed other tools to manage your printer automatically, you’ll have to manually remove the leftover software.

Note: The steps above only remove the printer from the list, so you’ll need to remove any leftover printer software or related applications.

If you’re still seeing an old printer, or one that you previously uninstalled, appearing on the Printers & Scanners page, you can remove or uninstall the printer driver and driver packages.

You can remove and uninstall your printer and leftover printer driver or related apps from Control Panel using these steps.

Ideally, if you used the Print Server properties method above, it should remove and uninstall the printer driver. However, you can use the Print Management console to completely remove printers you no longer use, and their drivers.

The Print Management dialog shows you the printers and current print jobs on your device. Before you delete the old printer driver though, make sure it’s not being used by any other printer.

If you open the Add a printer page and find old printers still listed there, edit the registry to remove leftover entries. To do this, start by creating a system restore point, and then follow the steps below.

Find the registry key:

Next, go to this key:

Some subkeys may still have references to your old printer, so you can clear the following as well:        

Once this is done, exit the Registry Editor.

If you’re a fan of command lines, the Command Prompt is another tool you can use to delete a printer and remove related drivers and apps.

If you prefer PowerShell over Command Prompt, here are the steps to take to remove the printer and related software.

This solution is meant to remove any remnants of drivers that may still be on your device even after deleting driver packages.

In the driver store, you’ll find inbox and third-party driver packages, which were installed and stored in the folder even before the driver itself got installed. 

Each of the subfolders in the store holds a driver package and corresponding .inf file, but it’s a bit difficult to find the specific driver package you’d like to remove.

The good news is you can use a third-party tool to explore the Windows driver store and completely remove the old printer driver once for all. It’ll also save you lots of space that would otherwise have been occupied by junk files.

A device driver is a piece of software that tells your computer’s operating system how to communicate with the device it’s connected to. 

For example, to connect to your printer and execute the print command, a printer driver is needed to bridge the gap between the two devices, and deliver the print job to you.

Without the printer driver, your printer is just hardware that doesn’t work. Similarly, deleting the printer driver after deleting the printer from your computer renders it inoperative.

However, if you delete the driver, you can undo the deletion using System Restore, from the previous restore point created when you deleted the driver from your computer.

Alternatively, Windows will automatically install the driver on your operating system by searching for it from its extensive library of drivers. If it doesn’t find a suitable driver, it’ll search for a driver online through Windows Update. Otherwise, you can visit the device manufacturer’s website to find the specific driver for your printer.