Why is win10 trying to load a printer driver for a printer that I have never had, and a driver that I have never installed or used.

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This is the event log error (throwing event ID 370 & 215):

The print spooler failed to regenerate the printer driver information for driver Canon Inkjet MP190 series for environment Windows x64. Win32 system error code 3016 (0xbc8). This can occur after an operating system upgrade or because of data loss on the hard drive.


I scanned the registry for cannon ( anything) and got nothing. I do not have any cannon devices under printers, or device manager. There are no cannon related services cataloged, etc. This started happening after a recent windows "upgrade" (kb5001028 & kb4601395) on 2/14/21

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