One thing I hate more than Microsoft: printers. I am royally pissed off right now.
I have installed on my computer the drivers for both a Canon MG5200 Series (MP Driver) and an Epson XP-400 Series printer. I did not install the Canon drivers, I'll assume they transferred from my upgrade to Windows 8, and I'm pretty sure a teacher installed the Epson when I specifically told him not to because Windows 8 has issues with printers and I haven't even installed my own goddamn printer yet!
When I go to the control panel to uninstall these, I see the Canon drivers and the Epson uninstall program. When I try to uninstall the Canon, it brings up the installer and asks if I'm sure I want to uninstall etc., I hit execute and it proceeds to the progress screen. It sits for about 10 seconds not doing anything and then says that it can't uninstall because the drivers are in use, please close all programs etc., if the problem continues restart and try again etc., and then it closes. So it must think that the old Windows 7 user is using the drivers or something to that extent, I would assume. I'm not terribly worried about this driver but I WILL want it removed within the next couple of months.
The Epson driver, however, is a complete bitch. It takes up space on my task tray on the taskbar and is always "ready" to print. When I try to uninstall the uninstaller from control panel, it brings up a window showing me the model number of the printer and the version of what I'm assuming is the printers firmware. The only option I have is click ok or click the X in the corner. Tried searching my computer for at least the program and all I could find was "buy ink", "online support", and "software update". The uninstaller appears to be nowhere on my computer. Tried googling, didn't tell me anything. Came across a page on manual uninstallation, and it told me how to find the uninstall file by using regedit. Located the file, tried exectuting, and a window came up saying "Source file cannot be read or recognized". WTF. Tried win7 compatibility mode, running as admin, same thing. The article on manual uninstallation mentioned something about copying all the program files to another location and deleting them all or something, but it was so vague and written so sloppily that I couldn't tell what it was trying to say at all.
Not sure if there was anything else I needed to say, but I'm sure I'll remember if there was. All I wanted to do was remove some non-existant printers from my computer:'(
Thought of something while typing this, maybe going into device manager and disabling the print spooler would allow me to uninstall the Canon?
