The requested resource is in use when Deleting printer Port

[zillah]

Dear Experts

I am using windows 7 and when I try to delete printers ports that were not is use any more , a message pops us

The requested resource is in use

Tried to follow the instruction in the links bleow but no joy

http://www.technipages.com/fix-the-r...g-printer-port

http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-...ters-port.html

Start>Control Panel>Printers and Faxes>rightclick your printer and
click Properties>Ports tab. You now should see all the ports listed.
Highlight the port you no longer want and click the Delete Port button.

Any other suggestion or advice ?

Thanks

[Steve R Jones]

Why are you wanting to delete the ports?

Are the ports linked to networked printers where the install failed?

[Midknyte]

Is there more than one printer installed? The port cannot be in use by ANY printer.

[zillah]

Why are you wanting to delete the ports?

Are the ports linked to networked printers where the install failed?

They are linked to network printers (more than one) that I am not going to use them any more,,,,they were installed properly no failure had happened

[zillah]

Is there more than one printer installed? The port cannot be in use by ANY printer.

On my laptop and Desktop and other laptop , yes there are couple of network printers installed with different ip addresses.
Some of those network printers, work related, and two of them for home use.
One of the home network printer already gone away and only the new one left.
I was trying to remove the port ip address for the one that gone

Thanks

[Midknyte]

I meant if there are multiple printers installed on the same computer. You can have multiple printers installed per print device. Print device = physical hardware

If you have multiple printers on the same computer and any of them are using that specific port, you won't be able to delete it (it's still in use).

[zillah]

Thanks for your support

You can have multiple printers installed per print device. Print device = physical hardware

I don't think this is m case , please see the attachments below
Thanks

[Steve R Jones]

Why are you wanting to delete the port?
Wouldn't deleting the printer be good enough?

[Midknyte]

It looks like you are trying to delete the Officejet L7500 port before you delete the printer. You can't do that if the printer is still using that port. It doesn't matter if the printer is offline. You must change the current port to something like LPT1 and then you can delete the old port.

OR delete the printer first. Then go to another printer and delete the unused port from the list.

[zillah]

Wouldn't deleting the printer be good enough?

Yes should do the job

Why are you wanting to delete the port?

Too many ip addresses listed under Ports' tab confuses me, therefore I try to minimize that list from unnecessary listed ip

Thanks

[zillah]

Thanks again

Officejet L7500

Yes

OR delete the printer first. Then go to another printer and delete the unused port from the list.

I deleted the printer although it was offline, then I clicked on another printer and went to Ports tab then tried to delete the ip address that was associated with Officejet L7500 still no joy

Regards

[Midknyte]

Hmm. That is bizarre. Did you reboot after deleting the printer?

[zillah]

Did you reboot after deleting the printer?

I deleted undesired offline printer when I rebooted , the printer appeared again!!!!

[Midknyte]

Ok. Something is weird there. You can try removing the printer via registry.

Go to the Start Menu
Type Regedit in the search box
Click on Regedit.exe to open Registry Editor

Backup your registry first!

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers
Delete the folder(s) of the printer you want to remove
Close Regedit

Go to the Start Menu
Type Services in the search box
Click on Services to open the Services console (the one with the blue gears icon)

Right-click on Print Spooler
Click Restart
Close Services