Hey, my computers were networked and the one with the printer had its motherboard fried so I’m hooking up my printer, Lexmark X75, back to my laptop, Windows XP home editon. The computer is asking me to delete the existing driver and reinstall it. I have the driver on disk and it available online. First off, I don’t think I know how to delete a driver. I tried add/remove programs but its not there. Then, I did a search and deleted any folders with Lexmark in the name. When I go to reinstall the driver, it tries to update the existing one which I thought I deleted. The updated driver still doesn’t find the printer. So basically, how do I get rid of the driver please?
This can get a little hairy, what I usually do is run a search for files with “Lex” in the name and start deleting everything that looks like its something to do with the printer. Then again, I’m sorta like a tech and stuff that looks like part of windows I am not going to delete. Unfortunately some of those files are in driver caches in the windows folder and are not obviously driver files to the non windows fluent.
It’s probably too late, but if you go into Control Panel | Programs & Features, there may be an uninstall.
Alternatively, go into Control Panel | Printers. Press the Alt key, then click File | Run as Administrator | Server Properties and click on the Drivers tab. From there you can delete the driver.
