Assistance Needed: XP and spoolsv.exe

[Richard Futrell]

have run into an issue that I have done many hours of research on. I have
a XP Pro box that was running great until all of the sudden it started
getting slow. When I looked into why, the file spoolsv.exe was at 99% CPU
usage and would not release. I found a post that said disable your print
spooler in Service.mcs but that will kill all printing from this computer. I
have not found any way of fixing this issue. If anyone has any information
please email me. I am still awaiting a replay from Microsoft but I have been
waiting for that for 4 days. Any help would be most appreciated.

Thank You In Advance!
Richard Futrell
World Hosting Central

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem with spoolsv.exe. Did you get a reply?

 

[Guest]

I am having the same problem. The printer has been working on this PC for months with no problems. My Printer disappeared, I can't reinstlall it. I type the command "Net Start Spool" and the CPU usage goes up to 100%. The printer install wizard gos thru its paces and fails at the end when it attempts to print a test page. When I run Task Manager, I see that the process "spoolsrv.exe" is engrossing the CPU at 100% and the PC perrformance degrades. If I stop the process "spoolsrv.exec" perrformance improves. But I am unable to install the printer. Is there anyone out there that knows how to solve this problem? My kids need to print their homework! I ran NAV and my system apprears to be clean. HELP!!!!