Clearing print queue

[Guest]

How old is the print queue technology? Windows has always seemed to have
problems clearing docs that have had a problem printing, or have been
cancelled in the status window. Is there an easy way to clear a document? I
have been waiting for at least 20 minutes for a one page document to clear
and process subsequent documents, after trying to cancel a document I found
to have a problem. It seems like it takes forever to clear a document. This
has been an issue from 3.1 ! WTF?

 

[Guest]

Create (or Copy & Paste) the below BAT file in Word, NotePad or Wordpad
and save it as a BAT file. Run it to clear the Print Queue.

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

Thanks. This batch job worked well but it doesn't explain why thisis
happening in the first place. Thanks again.