If this policy setting is enabled, it prevents users from deleting local and network printers.
If a user tries to delete a printer, such as by using the Delete option in Printers in Control Panel, a message appears explaining that a setting prevents the action.
This setting does not prevent users from running other programs to delete a printer.
If this policy is disabled, or not configured, users can delete printers using the methods described above.
| Registry Hive | HKEY_CURRENT_USER |
| Registry Path | Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer |
| Value Name | NoDeletePrinter |
| Value Type | REG_DWORD |
| Enabled Value | 1 |
| Disabled Value | 0 |