Can’t Add Printer, Windows 10, Error 0x00000006

Could not add printers either through GPO or manually. If adding the printer manually, Windows would provide a 00000006 error with no other details.

After deleting drivers and all printers I finally ran across this fix which resolved the issue.

When adding a network printer you may receive an error that says, “Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation failed with error 0x00000006.”

To resolve this issue open regedit & browse to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Providers

Just to be safe make a backup of the Client Side Rendering Print Providers key. 

Then delete the Client Side Rendering Print Providers key. 

Close regedit. 

Restart the Print Spooler service. 

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