Comments on: How to Backup Printer Drivers and Restore Them on Another Computer https://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/how-to-backup-printer-drivers-and-restore-them-on-another-computer/ Computer Technicians to IT Business Owners, Computer fixes and tools Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:08:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.17 By: Alex https://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/how-to-backup-printer-drivers-and-restore-them-on-another-computer/#comment-303850 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:33:41 +0000 http://www.emergingtechs.com/?p=403#comment-303850 After an epic battle with Print Spooler on Windows 7 the printer driver for a Xerox MFP refused to install no matter what I did-an error message window showed up and all install attempts failed. No registry cleanup, removal of partial driver install and reinstall or Print Spooler reset was successful. I was about to contact Xerox support for some help with this well known Print Spooler lockup error on Windows 7 (I fail to remember the error code now but I saw online it is a very frequent problem). Then I found this nice page here and simply followed your advice-I installed the driver on another Windows 7 machine, I backed it up and then I restored it on the problematic Windows 7 install. All went well and the Print Spooler lockup was avoided in a very clever way. The driver works perfectly so far and I installed the remaining control and scanner software with no problems. Great trick that solved it all after so much trouble with Print Spooler. Thanks a lot Casey!

]]> By: Jeff https://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/how-to-backup-printer-drivers-and-restore-them-on-another-computer/#comment-303809 Mon, 04 Dec 2017 09:04:36 +0000 http://www.emergingtechs.com/?p=403#comment-303809 In reply to Thomas.

I haven’t tried to only migrate one or a few of them. I can say there is the menu system (visible in screenshots above) and if you click on the cross of the menu tree, you can expand it and perhaps you can select one or more once expanded, before you click to back up printer drivers. Otherwise you might have to remove the ones you do not want after the migration (less preferred in your case I guess).

]]> By: Thomas https://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/how-to-backup-printer-drivers-and-restore-them-on-another-computer/#comment-303626 Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:58:34 +0000 http://www.emergingtechs.com/?p=403#comment-303626 Hi,

how can I migrate only a particular printer or few of them?
I suppose the tool will grab all of the available printers at the same time?

Thomas

]]> By: Joel https://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/how-to-backup-printer-drivers-and-restore-them-on-another-computer/#comment-302151 Fri, 21 Oct 2016 00:20:33 +0000 http://www.emergingtechs.com/?p=403#comment-302151 Won’t even do a backup for me. Program wants to know where to look for the file, almost as if it was trying to do the restore. Yes, I selected the “backup” option in the “Actions” menu.

]]> By: Lance Manley https://www.thetechmentor.com/posts/how-to-backup-printer-drivers-and-restore-them-on-another-computer/#comment-299529 Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:28:18 +0000 http://www.emergingtechs.com/?p=403#comment-299529 In reply to Sam.

Same thing here. I have a network with about 7 printers. I backed up from one windows 7 machine, restored on another. It looks like it’s working, but doesn’t actually do anything.

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