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Sharp Electronics (UK) Ltd., NIS Systems Support
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Windows 95/98
With Windows 95/98, you are prompted when deleting a print driver by the following screen. If at this
point you do not click the "Yes" button, many files that were previously installed are left on the
computers hard drive and information will also remain within the computer's registry. Even if the "Yes"
button is clicked, certain files will still remain on the computer's hard disk and within its registry.
point you do not click the "Yes" button, many files that were previously installed are left on the
computers hard drive and information will also remain within the computer's registry. Even if the "Yes"
button is clicked, certain files will still remain on the computer's hard disk and within its registry.
Manual Deletion of the Printer Driver Files
To manually delete the printer drivers on a Windows 95/98 the following should be performed:
(1) Ensure that the customer has fully backed up their computer data.
(2) Make a note of the type of printer driver/s (PCL, Postscript or PPD and the version number) that
you intend to delete.
(3) Delete any printer icons referring to the AR-PB2 from the printers folder by clicking on Start-
Settings-Printers, right click the printer and select Delete. If the printer/s driver installed are v4/v5
drivers and were installed using the Sharp Automatic Installer, go to Control Panel-Add_Remove
Programs and remove all the driver files and registry entries using the automatic removal facility.
drivers and were installed using the Sharp Automatic Installer, go to Control Panel-Add_Remove
Programs and remove all the driver files and registry entries using the automatic removal facility.
(4) When you are prompted with screen shot above, click the "Yes" button.
(5) When the printer/s have been removed, reboot the computer
(6) Using "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer", go to the directories shown on the following page
and remove the files applicable to the type and version of the printer driver/s you wish to fully
remove.
remove.
If you answered "Yes" when prompted with the screen shot above, a number of the files should
have already been deleted and will no longer be present.
have already been deleted and will no longer be present.
If any of the files on the following pages cannot be seen from Explorer or My Computer, ensure that
"Show All Files" has been selected from Windows Explorer-View-Folder Options-View (Windows 98),
Windows Explorer-View-Options-View (Windows 95).
"Show All Files" has been selected from Windows Explorer-View-Folder Options-View (Windows 98),
Windows Explorer-View-Options-View (Windows 95).
Automatic Deletion of the Printer Driver Files using Clean95.bat
To automatically delete the printer driver files on a Windows 95/98 system, the Sharp AR-PB2 printer
driver deletion utility (Clean95.bat) can be used. This can be obtained from the AR Product-ARPB2-
Drivers/Updates section of the Sharp Technical Web.
driver deletion utility (Clean95.bat) can be used. This can be obtained from the AR Product-ARPB2-
Drivers/Updates section of the Sharp Technical Web.
To use the Clean95.bat printer driver deletion utility, follow the points below:
(1) Follow and perform points 1-5 as detailed in the manual deletion process above.
(2) Download the utility and copy it onto a floppy disk or computer hard drive.
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