How to Prevent Users from Deleting Printers in Windows 7

Printers are important especially if you have a lot to print. If you are IT in a corporate environment you probably regularly set up printers for your customers. This can became rather tedious if your customers continue to delete printers. Here is a easy way to stop them from doing this.

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We will be using the Group Policy Editor to do this so go to START search and type in gpedit.msc and hit enter, make sure you have admin rights on your Windows 7 machine.

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From the Local Group Policy Editor go to the User Configuration under Administrative Templates and select Printers.

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In the right pane find Prevent deletion of printers and double click it. A dialog box will open, select Enabled and click ok.

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No no user can delete printers.

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