Printer does not appear in control panel but can be seem in applications
From an elevated CMD prompt:
How to Remove a Printer and Its Driver from the Command Prompt?
A complete list of printers in the system can be displayed as:
cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prnmngr.vbs" -l
A printer can be removed with the following command:cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prnmngr.vbs" -d -p "HP5525"
The print driver is deleted as follows:cscript "C:\Windows\System32\Printing_Admin_Scripts\en-US\prndrvr.vbs" -d -m "HP Universal Printing PCL 6" -e "Windows x64" -v 3
May also be necessary to stop the print spooler and remove all printers.
net stop spooler
DEL /F /S /Q %systemroot%\System32\spool\PRINTERS\*
net start spooler
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