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Printer drivers on Citrix XenApp 6.5

We've been having some fun with printer drivers on our XenApp 6.5 farm recently. We were able to track this down to some 3rd party drivers (I know, I know!) I used the cool Citrix tool PrintDective from here  http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX116474   to show me all the 3rd party (non-native) drivers we had installed on the server. Once I had found the 3rd party drivers I had a devil of a time removing them.  They were always in use - even if I was the only user on the server!  It was as if the drivers would not remove! I used the following procedure from  https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/b6c03300-fbed-4604-85fe-edbb811d769e/failed-to-remove-printer-driver  to remove the drivers and packages.  And now all is well in my Citrix farm.  Xen. :) 1. Then we stopped print spooler 2. In registry we opened HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows x64\Print Processors\ 3. We renamed all Print Processors that were l