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How can I remove my old printer, when I click on remove, it tells me it is still in use?

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And I’ve to wait until the printing stops, the fact is, it is not in use at all, and I’ve even pulled the plug out.

Answer:
go to system tray (bottom right) and see if there an icon of a printer there it may have prints waiting to be printed, if you dont need these jobs to be completed then delete them

now uninstall your printer

Answer:
Agree with the first person above based on what you state. If the printer Icon is on your tool bar at the bottom, then double click the Icon. This should bring up a menu for the printer jobs that the printer has in the que. You’ll need to click on printer then another menu drops down and click on cancel all print jobs. There should then me a 0 on the left hand side of the bottom. If its not that that's doing it them you may have a corrupted file for the printer that will not uninstall. This happened to me and the computer would not uninstall it for toffee. Try system restore to a day when you knew your printed last worked without problems.Then try uninstalling again. If that does not work then you may only be able to remove the printer if you wipe the whole system and reinstall all the programmes except the printer -that was what had to be done to mine as the personal chap could not get the personal to delete the programme for toffee. It has since happened again with Word 2007 refusing to uninstall when it developed a problem I could not fix. The files get corrupted somehow and then you've had it. I was lucky that time as system restore worked and so took me back to before the fault occurred.

I found this but I know nothing about it as I have never used it myself but see if it might help.
http://www.perfectuninstaller.com/index….

Edit
Also found this
http://www.error-repair-tools.com/ppc/fi…

Answer:
Look at the printer and check if their are any print jobs in the que by going:
Start/ Printer and Faxes
Double click on the printer (a ne window should appear)
Press printer (on the top)
Cancel all documents

This is on microsoft XP
Proceed to remove/uninstall the printer

Hope this has helped

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