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Renaming and Deleting printers from the command line
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15-05-2012, 01:03 AM

Good for when the clients account is locked down but you have access to an elevated terminal.

Deleting a printer from the command line
RUNDLL32 PRINTUI.DLL,PrintUIEntry /dl /n "PRINTERNAME"

Renaming a printer from the command line
cscript PRNCNFG.vbs -x -p "PRINTERNAME1" -z "PRINTERNAME2"

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Renaming and Deleting printers from the command line - by Mark - 15-05-2012, 01:03 AM

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