Windows 10 error adding Windows 11 network printers
Legacy Windows 10 computers frequently encounter error 0x00000006 or access denied messages when trying to add or remove shared network printers hosted on Windows 11 systems. Group Policy deployed printers further block administrative removal tools, requiring direct user-level permissions instead. This prevents users and administrators from successfully installing network printers and clearing out blocked print queues.
What the numbers show
Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count
- Most of it landed at once — the busiest month was September 2026, with 4 people.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Manually logging in as the user to click the remove buttonDid this help you?
- 2Setting up separate user and system context logon scripts to force deletionDid this help you?
- 3Renaming existing printers and pushing new configurations while ignoring old queuesDid this help you?
- 4Using older printer firmwareDid this help you?
- 5Relying on local printer connectorsDid this help you?
- 6Using alternative drivers like PCL-MiniDid this help you?
- 7Changing the driver on the queue to a generic driverDid this help you?
- 8Reviewing Point and Print Restrictions group policy settingsDid this help you?
- 9rolling back the recent OS updateDid this help you?
- 10manually connecting each printer for usersDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I’ve got an issue where users can’t install shared printers from our print server.”source ↗
“When trying to add a printer through Windows Settings, it lists the printers but then fails with: “We can’t install this printer right now. Try again later or contact your network administrator for help. Error #87””source ↗
“I found that I can use the following command to remove computer context print queues, ran into a roadblock removing user print queues, access denied error.”source ↗
“however with server 2025 mapping to those same client machines gives us a UAC prompt to install the driver despite it already been installed on the client.”source ↗
“Universal Print works after we turn or wake up printer when the users are in the office. But when the users are remote, we cannot wake up the printer.”source ↗
“DHCP or static IPv4 makes no difference. My OKI B432 wouldn't be pingable after some time:”source ↗
“If I click on the network info on the printer, it shows the correct information though, so OKI doesn't even know it's not reachable any more.”source ↗
“So far I have tried Remove-Printer and got error messages. Access Denied, GPO printers that are deployed as users can only be removed by the user so admin/SYSTEM wont work, but access is denied since it was GPO deployed.”source ↗
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