How to uninstall a driver

You guys have helped this rank amatuer a couple times before and I'm sure hoping you can do it again. I'm trying to resolve a printer problem where somehow I ended up with the printer listed twice in the control panel and each one has different features from the other. The only info I can find says to me they have two different versions of driver but I don't know enough to prove it. I go to HP resourse (help) center and they tell me to uninstall the current driver before installing the newest one from the HP site, but I can't determine how to do the uninstall. I'm running Win7, 64bit (whatever that means) so when I look at the control panel the only option I see that seems reasonable is "Remove Device". If I select that option, the little picture of the printer will go away but I don't know if that also uninstalls the driver. I don't think it does. The HP site also says to click on the little 'Windows' emblem in the lower left corner, then click 'all programs', then click 'HP'. But when I do all those clicks, there is no 'HP' anywhere on the list of 'all programs'. Any/all help is much appreciated, I really need to get this straightened out. I only want one version of my "All-n-one" F-4580 to appear and for it to have all the features of the latest driver. Thanks, Joe
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Good morning,
Sounds like you only installed drivers, not software. Driver only should work in many cases but with software, the life is much easier. Since you mentioned 4500, I don't know which one you have. HP has few printers called 4500, now my question: what is it ?
Regards.
BH
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