Phantom Uninstalled Shared Printer Folders in Network Neighborhood - How to Delete Them?

If I go to Network Neighborhood in my Windows 98SE machine and double click
on the icon for that computer, I see a folder called "Printer" which I think
represents a potential, but not yet installed, shared printer which could
be, but is not,
connected directly to this Windows 98SE machine.

However, I see other folders called Printer1, Printer2, Printer3 etc. all
the way up to and including Printer7.

These extra folder icons cannot be deleted or uninstalled by right clicking
them or by selecting them and attempting to delete them.

How can I get rid of them?

Please understand: I am not in the Windows 98 machine's own printer folder;
if I go there, I see only one printer - the installed driver for the shared
printer which is attached to the XP machine, elsewhere on my home LAN. I
know how to delete or
uninstall that driver.

My concern/problem pertains to all the extra, unused printer folder icons
which I can see when exploring or viewing the "Network Neighborhood" folder
not the printer folder.

(I also can see them from the XP machine if I select "view workgroup
computers" and look at the Windows 98SE machine from there.)

If I pay $35 to Microsoft I can write to them and get an answer (free
support from Microsoft for Windows 98 is ended now). But I'd rather get an
informed response right here, please. I posted in the Win98.printer forum
and nobody there has responded with informed help.

Maybe I have to delete them by editing the registry. In the Windows 98
machine registry, they are at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Network\LanMan\

In the XP machine, they are in various places in the registry, but I think
they would disappear from the XP machine's registry once they no longer
exist in the Windows 98 machine's registry.

On the Dell Support Forum someone just wrote "right click and delete" - NOT.
If I right click on the share I am trying to delete, these are the only
choices:

Open
Install
Capture Printer Port
Create Shortcut
Properties

and none of the above lead to a delete option.

I have just searched and two or three others have asked this same question
over the last few years. None have answered it with any solution.

- Don