David,

My Dell with Win7  provides this data - I suspect you might be able to backup the specific files and copy them to another pc.  However, I'm not sure if there are any registry updates that occur also, that would be more difficult.

Control panel/hardware and sound/devices and printers  -  select printer then print server properties/drivers

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From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter Shkabara
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 9:55 AM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] printer drivers



This post is a result of David's request for a printer driver for his mother's computer. Her computer was NOT connected to the Internet so she could not get direct updates from Microsoft.





My question to the list is this. Is there an easy way to extract printer drivers from a Windows 7 computer so they can be used again on another computer? I tried using Microsoft's Printer Migration tool, but it copies ALL the files related to printers, not just a specific printer. I also found some driver backup programs such as Double Drive, but they do not list printer drivers.





In the past, I have reinstalled printer drivers simply by going to the Windows\inf directory of another Windows installation that has the driver, but that is not a practical thing to do since there is a whole lot of files there to copy! I am looking for a simpler way to extract only the needed driver files. Thank you for any help.





Peter Shkabara



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