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Cannot remove a printer.

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by lalach

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We recently installed a new Windows 2000 Server, the old Windows NT Server crashed leaving links to network printers. The original Server that the printers were setup on is no longer available. When I try to delete the network printers that were setup on the old Server from a PC running windows NT I get a msg, "Printer Connection cannot be removed." "This function is only valid in windows NT mode." I was able to remove the printers from all PC's running windows 95 & 98 & reset them up. Example: network path was Pre1\HP4000 & now is Pre1b\HP4000, can't remove the printer that has the path to the old server seeing the old server not long exists?????

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by purple713

Try logging on to the machine as the administrator and removing them that way. If that doesn't work log on in safe mode and try it there. Hope this helps.

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