Error in Network Wizard etc

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Dean

I have a pc running WinXP Pro on a network of 3 computers, sharing DSL and
networked through a common router that works perfectly anywhere else. The
pc in question gets on the internet just fine, but cannot share files or
printers with the other 2 machines, one running XP Pro and one running
Win2k. Firewalling is turned off, network names match, etc, etc. When I
run the Networking Wizard to try to resolve the issue, the Wizard fails
after it collects all of your information, and gives an error that states
"There was an error in spoolv.exe, the operation will terminate". The
Wizard then terminates. I can find no reference to this error anywhere,
but I assume it is related to my non-networking problem, since everything
else seems in order. Can someone help?? The other 2 pc's communicate,
share and network flawlessly, but this one will only share the internet
connection through the hub, and cannot seem to get onto the network at all.

Dean
 
"Dean" said:
I have a pc running WinXP Pro on a network of 3 computers, sharing DSL and
networked through a common router that works perfectly anywhere else. The
pc in question gets on the internet just fine, but cannot share files or
printers with the other 2 machines, one running XP Pro and one running
Win2k. Firewalling is turned off, network names match, etc, etc. When I
run the Networking Wizard to try to resolve the issue, the Wizard fails
after it collects all of your information, and gives an error that states
"There was an error in spoolv.exe, the operation will terminate". The
Wizard then terminates. I can find no reference to this error anywhere,
but I assume it is related to my non-networking problem, since everything
else seems in order. Can someone help?? The other 2 pc's communicate,
share and network flawlessly, but this one will only share the internet
connection through the hub, and cannot seem to get onto the network at all.

Dean
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Before running the Wizard, type this line at a command prompt:

net stop spooler

After running the Wizard, type this line at a command prompt:

net start spooler
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