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.
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
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).
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.
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