Manual Uninstallation - Konica Minolta magicolor 8650DN User Manual

Installing the printer driver for Windows
3.7.3

Manual uninstallation

If the printer driver was installed without using an installer, manually delete the printer driver.
1
Open the Printers, Devices and Printers, or Printers and Faxes window.
2
Select the icon of the printer to be deleted.
3
Remove the printer driver.
– In Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/Vista/Server 2003/Server 2008, press the [Delete] key on the computer
keyboard.
– In Windows 7/Server 2008 R2, click [Remove device] on the toolbar.
4
Follow the on-screen instructions.
When the driver has been deleted, the icon disappears from the Printers, Devices and Printers, or
Printers and Faxes window.
– For Windows NT 4.0, this completes the driver uninstallation.
– For Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/Sever 2003/Server 2008/Server 2008 R2, delete the printer driver in
"Server Properties".
5
Open "Server Properties".
– For Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, click the "File" menu, and then click "Server Properties".
– For Windows Vista/Server 2008, right-click space in the Printers window and click "Run as
administrator", then click "Server Properties".
– In Windows 7/Server 2008 R2, select other printer, and click "Print Server Properties" on the toolbar.
– If the User Account Control window appears, click the [Continue] or [Yes] button.
6
Click the Driver tab.
7
Select the printer driver to be deleted from the "Installed printer drivers" list, and then click the [Remove]
button.
– For Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, continue with step 9.
– For Windows Vista/7/Server 2008/Server 2008 R2, continue with step 8.
8
Select "Remove driver and driver package" on the deletion confirmation screen and then click the [OK]
button.
9
Click the [Yes] button on the deletion confirmation screen.
– For Windows Vista/7/Server 2008/Server 2008 R2, when the deletion confirmation screen is
additionally displayed, click the [Delete] button.
10
Close the opened screen and restart the computer.
– Be sure to restart the computer.
This completes the printer driver uninstallation.
Note
Even if the printer driver is deleted using the preceding method, the model information file will remain
in the computer for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003. Therefore, when reinstalling the same version of
the printer driver, the driver may not be able to be overwritten. In this case, delete the following files.
"C: \WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86"
When you check folders and find a folder of the applicable model, delete it. However, if multiple drivers
are installed including the Konica Minolta driver and PostScript Konica Minolta driver, the model
information of all drivers is deleted. If other drivers are remaining, do not delete it.
Delete "oem*.inf" and "oem*.PNF" in "C: \WINDOWS\inf" folder (the asterisk "*" in the file name
indicates a number, and the number varies according to the environment of the computer).
Before deleting the files, open the INF file, check that the model name is described in the last several
lines, and then check that the file of the corresponding model is available. The PNF file is the same
number as the INF file.
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