Print spooler service is not running

[Brian]

downloaded service pack 2 and now my printer will not
work. says print spooler service is not running and it
will also sat that the RPC server is unavailable. how do
I fix this?

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

See steps 15 through 17 at Bruce Sanderson's article at:
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
downloaded service pack 2 and now my printer will not
work. says print spooler service is not running and it
will also sat that the RPC server is unavailable. how do
I fix this?
.

What happens when ya start the services manually..?

 

[Guest]

Hi Cari,

I tried this, but it didn't work either. Any other ideas?

Andre

 

[Guest]

Hi Brian,

It sounds like we are having the same problem (see my entry on Service
Control Manager). If I try to manually restart this service while logged on
as a user, I get an error 5: Access Denied.

Anyone have any ideas?

Andre

 

[lee mcmindes]

When I go to the hkey_local_machine......\spooler i do not have an
DependOnService key. I only have \enum; \Parameters; \Performance;
and \Security.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Did you try a System File Check?

From the Command Prompt, type:

sfc /scannow
(note space between c and /)

 

[lee mcmindes]

Did you try a System File Check?

From the Command Prompt, type:

sfc /scannow
(note space between c and /)

yes, i am not sure of what that resulted in. Using a free registry
checker it found hundred's of registry errors. Should I invest in
fixing them first?

 

[radu]

I found that I had message -Print spooler service is not running-Befor
upgrading the SP2.

After running Nortons it detected an unknown virus which I isolated an
removed.

Then having searched web and earlier downloaded windows resources kit
ran cleanspl.exe.

This fixed problem. But then required loading all print drivers!

Until I had isolated virus and removed it, the virus had earlie
stopped cleanspl.exe working.


RAD


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