Deleting a printing job

[Paul]

ok now this is just crazy, but also normal for megashaft.

My first use of xp pro years ago brought a new function. Whenever I deleted
a printing job whether the printer was on or off, it would take at least 15
minutes to delete from the que. I mean that it would be status deleting all
that time. So, I could not reset printer and redo my job until I aged
considerably. I asked in this ng and I get several suggestions, but nothing
that worked. From the nature of the responses, I concluded that I was the
only one who experienced this. Since then they have issued sp1 and 2 that I
installed, but the condition remained.

Well, now I am on my 3rd installation of xp pro, all pieces of hardware have
been changed. And I still have this problem. In fact, I am writing this
while waiting for the damn thing to clear. WTF?

Any suggestions?

Paul


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[Guest]

hi paul
i had this before
when you have a print but you dont want to print right click the little
printer at the bottom right hand screen and click open all active printers
and faxes and right click on the print you dont want and click cancel
that should solve your problem if not email me at (e-mail address removed)

 

[Paul]

That is exactly what I do do.

p

 

[Pegasus]

ok now this is just crazy, but also normal for megashaft.

My first use of xp pro years ago brought a new function. Whenever I deleted
a printing job whether the printer was on or off, it would take at least 15
minutes to delete from the que. I mean that it would be status deleting all
that time. So, I could not reset printer and redo my job until I aged
considerably. I asked in this ng and I get several suggestions, but nothing
that worked. From the nature of the responses, I concluded that I was the
only one who experienced this. Since then they have issued sp1 and 2 that I
installed, but the condition remained.

Well, now I am on my 3rd installation of xp pro, all pieces of hardware have
been changed. And I still have this problem. In fact, I am writing this
while waiting for the damn thing to clear. WTF?

Any suggestions?

Paul

You're not the only one with this problem. Here is a brutal
way to purge all pending print jobs. Create the batch file
c:\windows\purge.bat, then create a shortcut on your desktop
that invokes this batch file. If you get an error message when
double-clicking the shortcut the first time, try a few more
times!

@echo off
net stop "print spooler"
del /q "%SystemRoot%\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.*"
net start "print spooler"
ping localhost -n 5 > nul

 

[Paul]

Thanks, but that is not working. command line screen says spooler started
and / or spooler service started, then closes. Sometimes says something bla
bla bla is busy, then pauses, then says above, then closes. Either way jobs
not purged.

p

 

[Pegasus]

You need to look a little closer. Click the "refresh"
menu item in Control Panel / Printers and you will see
that the jobs are gone!

 

[Paul]

Job will not go away, no matter how long I wait, after running the batch.
No matter how many times I refresh

 

[Guest]

have you tried unstalling and re-installing the printer
p.s - what type of printer is.
sometime there a fault with the software and if this dose not work turnoff
the printer and restart the computer.
also this happens to me sometimes so i turn on print peview so i can see
what i print and if i don't want it i push cancle.

 

[Pegasus]

Time to roll up your sleeves and find out for yourself
what is going on:

1. Start a Command Prompt.
2. Stop the Spooler service manually. The command is
in my batch file. Can you stop it?
3. Examine the print job files. Their location is in my
batch file. Can you see them? Can you delete them?
4. Restart the Spooler service manually. The command is
in my batch file.
5. Let's have your feedback.

 

[Paul]

yes, stopped ok
/q "%SystemRoot%\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.*" was not recognized
/q "%SystemRoot%\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.*" was also not recognized
del /q "%SystemRoot%\system32\spool\PRINTERS\*.*" was processed
started ok.

Tried batch file again and it appeared to work. hmmm. So I tried deleting
job in que the old way that takes 15 minutes, and now it is repeatably
working. I have not seen jobs delete this fast since win98. I mean really,
WTF is going on? Hmm, my pc must be just in a very good mood or something.
And I have not even rebooted since last night. I expect, that before long,
the deleting from the que will again take 15 minutes. Then I may repost.

thanks,
paul

 

[Paul]

rarely use print preview. This is a different printer then before. So, I
have had this condition on 2 different printers.

 

[Pegasus]

What's this command starting with "/q"? You ommitted the "del" word!

 

[Paul]

del was to delete, right? So when you said "Examine the print job files.
Their location is in my batch file. Can you see them? Can you delete them?"
I was guessing at the command to see them.

 

[Paul]

Interesting now the printer icon in the taskman stays, no mattrer how many
times I open and exit.

Off to the beach drum circle for my Sunday night fix.

Be back maybe 4 to 6 hours.

p

 

[Pegasus]

I wrote "the command is in my batch file". This means that
you retype each line from the batch file, verbatim, without
adding anything and without removing anything. You removed
a few things, and suffered the penalty.

To see the print jobs you could use Explorer or "My Computer".

 

[Paul]

you also said "Start a Command Prompt, Examine the print job files. Their
location is in my
batch file." Running the command in the batch file as it was deleted, not
viewed.