How to Fully Remove Lexmark Drivers from Windows Environment How to remove Lexmark drivers from Windows; Microsoft

Windows NT 4; Microsoft Windows 2000 Solution Note: You will only be able to carry out this procedure correctly if you have an account with administrator privileges. WARNING! This solution provides instructions for editing the registry. It is important to back up the current registry entries before making changes as improperly following the directions could result in damage to the operating system. Do not hesitate to contact Lexmark Technical Support with any questions you may have.

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Go to Start, Settings, Printers, and delete each Lexmark printer object. (To delete a driver, right click on the icon and choose Delete.) If no Lexmark drivers are installed, go to step 2.

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Close the Printers window. Close the MarkVision Utility and any other programs that are open. Go to Start, Run and type regedt32 in the Open field. Click OK. Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. Open the Software key. Select the Lexmark key. On the menu bar, select Registry. Click Save to save this key as the Lexmark Software Key on your desktop. Important: Make a note of the name and location of this file as it can be used to restore your registry in case you need to reinstall the registry for any reason.

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Select the Lexmark key and click on Security/Permissions. Important: If you are using a FAT file system, skip steps 9, 10 and 11.

10. Make sure that you have FULL CONTROL for these keys. Select Replace Permissions on Existing Subkeys. 11. When asked if you want to replace these permissions, click Yes. 12. Open the Lexmark key by double-clicking it. Steps 13 - 20 below are used to preserve any other Lexmark software registry information that you may have on your system. Note: The keys mentioned in steps 13 - 20 might not be installed in the registry. If they are not, go to the step that follows.

13. Select the DriverSetup key. 14. Press the Delete key to remove this folder. Note: Make sure that the Lexmark Printer Driver Setup key is the only key that is selected. 15. Select the LMStatus key. 16. Press the Delete key to remove this folder. Note: Make sure that the LMStatus key is the only key that is selected. 17. Select the Markvision key. 18. Press the Delete key to remove this folder. Note: Make sure that the Markvision key is the only key that is selected. 19. Select the Network Support key. 20. Press the Delete key to remove this folder. Note: Make sure that the Network Support key is the only key that is selected. 21. Open System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows NT x86\Drivers\ 22. Select and delete every Lexmark key under the Version-2 (NT & 2000) and Version-3 (2000 only) keys. 23. Open the System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers key. 24. Select and delete every Lexmark key under the Printers key. 25. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER. 26. Open the Software key by double clicking it. 27. Click Save to save this key as the Lexmark Software Key on your desktop. 28. Select the Lexmark key and press Delete. Note: Make sure that the Lexmark key is the only key that is selected. 29. Exit the Registry Editor by clicking Registry, Exit. 30. Go to Start, Settings, and select Taskbar. In the Taskbar Properties screen, choose Start Menu Programs and click Advanced. Click on winnt\profiles\all users\start menu\programs\Lexmark and press Delete. Choose Close, OK. 31. If you added the MarkVision icon to your desktop, right click on the icon and select Delete. 32. Go to the command prompt. Type cd c:\winnt\system32 and press ENTER. 33. Type net stop spooler and press ENTER. 34. Type net stop lexbces and press ENTER.

35. Type lexbces u and press ENTER. 36. When the LEXBCES has been successfully stopped, type del lex*.* and press ENTER. 37. If you are notified that access is denied to some files, type ren lex*.* lex*.old and press ENTER. 38. Type del lmpcl*.* and press ENTER. 39. Type del lmstatus*.* and press ENTER. 40. Type del drvnpant.dll and press ENTER. 41. Type cd c:\winnt\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 and press ENTER. 42. Type del LEX*.* and press ENTER. 43. Type del LM*.* and press ENTER. 44. The next section is for removing printer specific files: Type del C71*.* and press ENTER. Type del OP*.* and press ENTER. Type del OC*.* and press ENTER. Type del E855*.* and press ENTER. Type del K12*.* and press ENTER. Type del M4*.* and press ENTER. Type del ose*.* and press ENTER. Type del SC*.* and press ENTER. Type del T61*.* and press ENTER. Type del W81*.* and press ENTER. Type del PT*.dll and press ENTER. 45. Type del cart*.* and press ENTER. 46. Type del drvnpant.dll and press ENTER. 47. Type cd 2 and press ENTER. 48. Repeat steps 38 46 49. Click Start, Run. 50. Type C:\ and press ENTER (the root directory). 51. Look for the Lexmark folder. 52. Delete this folder by right clicking the icon and selecting Delete. 53. You will be prompted to remove LEXMARK\*. Type Y and press ENTER. This step deletes all Lexmark drivers and files used by the Add Printer wizard. 54. Close the DOS window by typing exit and pressing ENTER.

55. Click Start, Run. 56. Type REGEDIT and press ENTER to open the 16-bit registry editor. 57. Press the CTRL & F keys to open the file find function. 58. Type in LEXMARK and start the search 59. Delete all LEXMARK keys, using F3 to search for them. 60. Exit the registry. 61. Click Start, Run. 62. Type in C:\WINNT\INF and press ENTER. 63. Look for OEM#.INF. The # is a variable. Start with 0 and keep going until you reach the end of the INF files. Open each file to see if the provider is Lexmark. If so, delete that INF file. 64. Restart your computer.