Prevent deletion of printers
- Policy ID
- NoDeletePrinter
- Scope
- User Configuration
- Supported on
- At least Windows 2000
- Source
- Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
- Category
- Control Panel › Printers
Description
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
UserHKEY_CURRENT_USER
- NoDeletePrinterREG_DWORD