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Where is XPh PORT DATA kept ? - can't Delete Ports



 
 
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Old August 5th 03, 10:47 PM
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Default Where is XPh PORT DATA kept ? - can't Delete Ports

I had a mad spree setting up network share printers from
one of my XP systems to my W98SE/ME systems and that
seemed to work. When sanity kicked in and I bought a
network printserver, I decided to tidy every cross-link;
this worked fine on 98SE/ME systems but not so on my
XPhome PC.
The ports are all listed (Printserver properties from
right-click in explorer - how obscure is that!) in the
form \\PCNAME\PRINTERID (some but not all contain space
characters in the printerid field).

I have 8 of these guys to lose.
Independently of the other PCs being on-line (**hmm but
those printers are no longer shared**), I try the Delete
Port command and it seems to be very poorly implemented
as it gives up when (maybe?) it finds inconsistencies:

Hopefully, I click "Yes" to pop-up #1 which says:
"Deleting this port will remove it from the system. ...
Are you sure you want to delete \\PCNAME\PRINTERID ?"

....but pop-up #2 with a wicked laugh then says:
"Selected port cannot be deleted. Operation could not be
deleted"

I scanned my filesystem and registry but cannot find
clear-text versions of any of the components of the
portnames.

I can add and delete any *new* printer port I can think
of.

My system ain't broke ... but it sure is irritatingly
messy to not be able to tidy this up.

p.s. yes I found where the ports are held in the registry
and these names aren't visibly there.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts
....and a M$oft article on fixing a similar problem using
that entry by adding in the entry to "re-create" the
missing entry before trying to delete it. That didn't
work either [** will re-try this with logout before
trying delete port again.]


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