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I have a printer at home and in the past, I managed to accidentally print things on it. In Windows, you can simply print something via right-click and I managed to hit that too.

Is there a way to disable the printer temporarily?

I can also print via my phone, but it's a struggle to download each file to it when I want to print. And printing from my phone takes a very long time to complete. One page takes several seconds to finish - while it only takes under a second via PC.

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  • You can disable the printer in Device Manger.
    – anon
    Commented Mar 9, 2023 at 1:22

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You can pause the printer, this will still allow jobs to be queued, but they won't be processed until the printer is unpaused. To do this, right-click on your printer and select "See what's printing," then click "Pause printing."

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  • Long overdue, but this proved to be the solution. Mind you, finding Print Queue where you can pause & resume on Windows 11 is a major pain. I go to "Print Management", "All Printers" and there i can right click + pause / resume.
    – Apache
    Commented Aug 9, 2023 at 17:30

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