Hey guys, I need some ideas how to best deal with this. And I don't want to go down the route of wiping and installing win7 on it.
I use my personal laptop to program home automation, this means I'm in several homes a week integrating systems into peoples home networks. I purchased a new laptop and love it, but it did come with win8.1....So yeah I've been finding things I like and don't like about it. The lack of windows wireless network management gui is incredibly frustration. I have found a 3rd party app to fill that void, but not being able to delete multiple printers and multimedia devices at a time and this is killing me. I can have 40-50 printers xbox's and god knows what else smiling at me when I open my devices and printers folder. Its cluttering up the place. It wouldn't be so bad if they were hidden, but I'm not ever going to use them, and it makes it hard to find the actual attached devices.
20+ minutes every week deleting these one by one is not the answer. This just seems like it shouldn't be an issue.... I'm thinking there has to be a direct path or way to delete all quicker. Has any one ran into this before? am I missing something? If so what did you do to get around this?
I was kicking around google for a minute and found a path to delete more than one printer at a time. "shell:PrintersFolder" Its a start. Does anyone know of other direct paths for multimedia devices, tv's ect? It would be nice if script or bat file could automate this process.
As always thank you in advance for your help.