printer not showing in devices and printers

hello,

If your planning to format your sysmtem

take your files and folders backup

if you are formatting total drives 

1.) Take bakup and format.

else if you are formatting only os drive

2.)According my experience I will suggest you to connect your hard drive to another system(antivirus must be installed)  as a secondary and scan with antivirus.

and connect scanned hard drive to its actual cpu after that format and install your required drivers and software.

Hello Manish,

Thank you for your input.

It is a good idea to scan the hard drive for viruses before Windows reinstallation.

I appreciate it.

Thank you

Hi everybody,

I had this very same problem on my win10 system. The printer was installed and could print to it but it wouldn't show up in Device and Printers. The problem isn't with the print spooler but the solution is in services. The "Device Management Enrollment Services" was disabled. Once I enabled that service, set to manual, and started the service, the printer(s) appeared in Device and Printer. None of the "Device" services should should be disabled.

Hope this helps somebody.

Steve

Hello Steve,

Thank you for sharing information with us.

I also hope that your suggestions may help other community members to resolve similar issues.

I appreciate your efforts and findings.

Thank you

Actually, someone else discovered the solution, I would like to thank this person. I just ran across it googling my issue and their solution rectified my problem and saved me from reloading.