Unable to uninstall HP Deskjet Ink Advancege Ultra 4729

[TonyWai]

Hi,

i am facing several issue on my HP Printer so i decide to  uninstall and reinstall it.

But every time i try to uninstall it on "add or remove program", it will show a error massage as stage as photo attached below.

Please help and advice how to uninstall it.

My Operating system : Microsolf Windows 10 (64-Bit)

my hp printer model: HP Deskjet Ink Advancege Ultra 4729

thanks.

[ShlomiL]

Symptoms

When you try installing or uninstalling the HP Basic Device Software for your printer, a form of the following error returns:

Solution

Note: if you have an HP Computer, follow the steps within the HP PC Solution section and do not follow any further steps within this section

• From the search bar type CMD, right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator.
• Copy the following command, then right-click the Command Prompt dialog and select Paste, then press Enter till any command completes
• processing:
  

  takeown /f %windir%\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository /r /d y
  icacls "%windir%\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository" /grant %username%:(OI)(CI)F /T
  for /d %G in ("%windir%\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\hpwia*") do rd /s /q "%~G"
  takeown /f %windir%\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository /A /r /d y

  Note: This provides your user full permissions to the File Repository system folder and deletes all HP's folders from within the system folder
  Note: if you receive any Syntax error and your operating system language is in a different language than English, review the following Takeown command documentation from Microsoft for your language and modify the syntax accordingly.
  
  
• From the Start menu click the Gear icon, select Apps and uninstall the HP Basic Device Software for your printer.
• Download and install the latest HP Basic Device Software for your printer as necessary:
  https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/printers

HP PC Solution

• From the search bar type CMD, right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator.
• Copy the following command, then right-click the Command Prompt dialog and select Paste, then press Enter till any command completes processing:
  

  takeown /f %windir%\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository /r /d y
  icacls "%windir%\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository" /grant %username%:(OI)(CI)F /T
  takeown /f %windir%\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository /A /r /d y

   Note: This provides your user full permissions to the File Repository system folder
  Note: if you receive any Syntax error and your operating system language is in a different language than English, review the following Takeown command documentation from Microsoft for your language and modify the syntax accordingly.
• From the Start menu click the Gear icon, select Apps and uninstall the HP Basic Device Software for your printer and evaluate the error message, then close the Uninstall dialog.

• Right-click the Start button and select Run, then paste the following path and press OK:
  

  %windir%\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository

• Locate and delete only the HP Folder listed in the error message.
  Example: following below error message, delete the hpwia_pw477dw.inf_amd64_efa093991b821954 folder as an example:
  
• From the Start menu click the Gear icon, select Apps and uninstall the HP Basic Device Software for your printer.
• Download and install the latest HP Basic Device Software for your printer as necessary:
  https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/printers

Regards,

Shlomi