Microsoft is continuing its cleanup of legacy components in Windows 11, and this time the focus is on printer drivers. The company is ending support for older V3 and V4 printer driver models, a ...
Microsoft is set to make third-party printer drivers and utilities a thing of the past for Windows users. As Betanews reports, Microsoft announced that it's going to phase out support for third-party ...
As Microsoft continues to update Windows 11, one item that it's dropping support for are V3 and V4 printer drivers. This move was advertised back in September 2023, as Microsoft claimed these printer ...
Microsoft is changing the way some older printers are supported in Windows 11 This doesn't mean those devices will no longer work in the OS, though A poorly worded statement in a roadmap gave this ...
Once you've run Windows 10 or 11 for a while, it can become bloated with outdated device drivers. Use Driver Store Explorer and simple techniques to remove obsolete or unused items in the Windows ...
Microsoft stopped publishing new legacy v3/v4 printer drivers to Windows Update on Jan 15, 2026. Starting July 1, 2027, non-security third-party printer driver updates won't be available through ...
Prior versions of Windows included basic printer drivers that enabled simple printing when a full feature driver was not available. This increased Windows footprint and provided more storage space to ...
Microsoft has announced big changes for printing on Windows. According to the newly published documentation, the company will soon end servicing third-party printer drivers on all Windows versions.
I have Samba set up to show all my LPRng printers automatically (scans the printcap and makes them all available) This is very usefull considering I dynamically create printer spools, so all I have to ...