Welcome

Welcome to the help system for the Kyocera Mita Printer Deleter

The Kyocera Mita Printer Deleter allows you to cleanly remove printers from the windows systems. The utility removes from the system the printers, printer drivers and OEM files as well as all associated registry keys, registry values, and driver files. Also the utility enables you to clean older printer files, registry keys and values that remain on the system from printers that were deleted manually.

Basic Operation

Advanced Operation


Basic Operation

The installed printers with their associated dependent files, registry entries appear in the tree view. All dependent files missing for a printer driver installation will be shown with a red cross through its icon. If the host is a printer server, Win40 files for Win9x might be listed in the tree view. For Windows XP, there may be backup files listed in the tree view. Also all printer OEM files will be listed in the tree view together with the manufacturer names and models of the printers in the OEM files.

Files with language information will display this information next to the filename. This info can be used to determine if an incorrect file version is currently on the system.

To delete a printer, highlight it, and then press ‘Delete’ or select ‘Delete’ from the ‘Action’ menu. Click on ‘Yes’ in the confirmation dialog box to remove the printer. The printer will then be deleted, and all of the associated files and registry entries.


Advanced Operation

The dependent file list displayed for each printer is determined by an entry in the registry. Some printer installers will not correctly make registry entries when a printer is installed. For this case, dependent files for the printer will not be displayed. These files might then be listed under the ‘Orphaned Files’ section. Be careful when deleting orphaned files when a printer displays an empty dependent files list.

Sometimes Windows files have a lock on the file so deleting such a file will fail. However, the file will be marked for deletion the next time Windows reboots. A message displaying this info will be displayed, and the user will be prompted to reboot before installing another printer.

Also, files that weren’t deleted because of being locked will still show up as orphaned files. They will be removed the next time the system is rebooted.

Multiple items can be deleted at the same time, using the following steps:

1.	Press Shift key and Click the items, or

2.	Press Ctrl key and Click the items, or

3.	Press left button and drag from left-top corner to right-bottom corner of the area of items you want to select.

If the parent item has been selected, the Deleter will remove the parent item and all of its children items no matter whether the children items are selected or not. For orphan registry and files, Deleter only deletes the selected items.

For printers and OEM files, the Deleter removes the printer as well as its registry and files, or does not delete it. The Deleter can not delete partial registry and files of the printer or OEM file.