How to forcefully uninstall printers, printer drivers and printer ports from Windows

If you can't add new printers because there's already one with that name or port, or you can't fully remove its drivers or ports, you need to purge them through Registry. The places where you need to search for its entries are: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Print\Printers…