Spooling

[manav]

Question: How do we delete a job that says Deleting or
Spooling in a Print Queue?

We've got a print queue on a Windows 2000 server. When a
document is sent to that queue, sometimes, for a long
while it says SPOOLING - creating a long queue behind it.

This time we attempted cancel the job that said spooling.
But did not remove it from the queue, instead it says it's
Deleting...

I know that rebooting the server would remove the job but
I'm not in a position to reboot the server.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Howard Emerich]

I used to have this problem on a server. I solved it by
pausing the printer, then stopping and starting the
spooler service. It happened so often that I wrote a
simple batch file to stop and start the spooler service,
and put a shortcut to the batch file on the server's
desktop.