Add Printer - freezes settings or doesn't do anything from Control Panel

I was having several issues with printing after the upgrade...can't print to networked (wifi/hard wired) printers (Brother/HP). I thought I'd go down the path of reinstalling so I removed networked Brother printer.

Trying to add it back.

• If I click Add Printer from the Control Panel's Devices and Printers...the window seems to flash like focus is being given to another window...but then focus returns to the control panel and the Add new Printer dialogue window is not shown.
• If I click on the Add Printer from the Settings window, the Add device button seems to go to read only but nothing else happens except the whole Settings window hangs.

Event Viewer related events:

1. Printbrm.exe (the Printer Migration Wizard or the command-line tool) failed to backup port WSD-af747d64-e3bd-4471-9ac6-476778844b01.0035. The backup process will continue, skipping this port. Error: 0x80070709.
2. The document Print Document, owned by chad, failed to print on printer Brother MFC-J985DW Printer. Try to print the document again, or restart the print spooler.
   Data type: NT EMF 1.008. Size of the spool file in bytes: 134676480. Number of bytes printed: 0. Total number of pages in the document: 1. Number of pages printed: 0. Client computer: \\CHAD-LAPTOP. Win32 error code returned by the print processor: 1168. Element not found.
3. The program SystemSettings.exe version 10.0.22000.348 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed. To see if more information about the problem is available, check the problem history in the Security and Maintenance control panel.
   Process ID: 76cc
   Start Time: 01d7f1e1ade41da9
   Termination Time: 4294967295
   Application Path: C:\Windows\ImmersiveControlPanel\SystemSettings.exe
   Report Id: 082cedb9-518e-42ed-93ed-5d3ed0a2e978
   Faulting package full name: windows.immersivecontrolpanel_10.0.6.1000_neutral_neutral_cw5n1h2txyewy
   Faulting package-relative application ID: microsoft.windows.immersivecontrolpanel
   Hang type: Cross-process

1 Try running the Printer Troubleshooter and/or use System Restore in Windows 11:


2 Clear out the Print Spooler and see if that resets the issue. To Reset and Clear the Print Spooler, follow the advise in this forum tutorial:

3 Your Event suggests reading the Problem History report for more information. To view the Reliability History, read the advise in this forum tutorial:

From administrative cmd type sfc /scannow. Sounds like file corruption to me.

I was getting freezes (not related to printer) and event viewer was reporting immersive control panel faults. I did a repair reinstall of 11
Repair Install Windows 11 with an In-place Upgrade