How to fix a printer on Windows 7 when it tells you access is denied After some searching though I figured out how to delete a printer from Windows 7 when it tells you that your access is denied. Sadly, most of the examples I were seeing were for registry changes and other were reporting it did not work for Windows 7 but that it had on Windows XP, which of course didn’t help my situation. I went about my business but after a while this got on my nerves and I scoured the web to find a way to resolve it. If I attempted to delete it I’d get the dialog box above telling me that Access is denied, unable to remove device. The printer was an HP Deskjet that was once running on my network and I wanted to remove it. This was done because a portion of this occurred on a work machine… so I’m simply removing references to those machines/networks/etc.
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