Vista - vista recognized & downloaded driver. now won't reinstall it

I wanted to install my printer (HP PSC 1210 all-in-one). I plugged it into my laptop and it recognized the printer and downloaded the proper driver for that model. For some reason, I deleted the printer. I unplugged it, restarted, and plugged it in again, but the laptop did not recognize it like it had before and did not download any driver at all.

I then did the printer wizard and downloaded the driver supporting the psc 1200 series. Although, that driver did not work.

I did more research and tried to delete any traces of the driver to see if vista would recognize my printer again, but it still did not.

My question is, is there a way to erase my driver history for my printer activity so that vista could recognize my printer again?

I think that the easiest way would be to do a system restore from a point prior to the first download. That should restore your system to the way it was prior to your initial attempt. Hope this works. System restore has always worked for me and is a awesome feature of Vista.

have you been into control panel/printers and deleted your printer from there?

Kariseena, +1 on what richc46 * archie123 have said.

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