Windows 10: Multiple Entries for Multiple Printers

I am uncertain if this is by design, and if so, I understand. I support a traveling comms team that supports a VIP user. Part of their travel procedure involves setting up a comms room at the various hotels they stay at, and as part of that they connect various printers via USB. The team has multiple HP Mobile 250 printers, and multiple different laptops that they get connected to. All laptops are running Windows 10 1909 our Windows version is limited by our enterprise. The team complains that when one of the users we support connects the printer to their computer, they can see multiple copi

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Multiple Icons For My Printer {was: multiple}

Where are these icons? Are they all in Devices and Printers?

How many is multiple?

You have multi-function device. Some of the icons may be for the scanner functionality of your device.

How is the printer connected to your computer? If it is connected by USB, do you often disconnect it and when you re-connect it perhaps use a different USB port?

1. Right-click on one of the icons and select "Printer properties."
2. Select the "Ports" tab
3. What is shown in the "Port" column on the line that is checked and highlighted? You may have to click and drag on the faint vertical line in the header row in order to expand the "Port" column. Do not click on any of the entries.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Select the "General" tab.
5. Click the "Print test page" button.
6. Does a test page print?
   • If a test page does not print and you get an error message, what is the complete text of the error message?
   • Close the "Printer properties" dialog by clicking "Cancel" if it didn't close automatically
7. Right-click on the icon again and select "See what's printing"
   • Is the window empty or is a print job showing?
   • If there is a print job in the window, what is its "Status"?
   • If there is a print job in the window, select the "Printer" menu and then click "Cancel all documents"
     • Did all the print jobs go away?
   • Close the "what's printing" window

Repeat steps 1 - 7 for each icon for your Canon Pixma MG53xx

 

multiple entries of modem in settings

In settings-devices I have over 70 entries for my Archer_VR1600v modem all saying "not connected" and only one entry with nothing listed next to it. I need to reset my network settings daily to get any connection to the internet. Would these multiple listings
be the cause of this resetting problem?

*** Merge thread due to similar issue ***

 

How do I delete multiple entries for the same contact?

Thanks, but this did not work. It gave suggestions for combining multiple contacts into one, but did nothing to clean up
unique contacts with multiple Hotmail entries.



I was able to figure this out however. Click on the contact with multiple entries; on the menu bar click 'Links' and delete the appropriate entries.