Print Spooler Crash - repeatedly

[Scuba Steve]

Vista Ultimate Edition
3rd - clean reinstall.

When connecting to network print devices.

Printer Spooler - crashes repeatedly.

This happens on startup - occationaly.
It happens when running logon scripts.
I have tried numerous scripts - VBS and BAT files.
All of which work - 100% on XP boxes.

When connecting manually - it will load 1 or 2 devices - then spooler will
fail.

I notice that there are 1000's of posts related to this issue.

Is there a FIX or Workarount from Microsoft?


Vista will never go in my enterprise at this rate...


Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Feel free to contact me.

Steve Wingert
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

If you have any HP laserjet printers, make sure you have one of the latest
drivers. At minimum, you must have version 16 of an HP installer file
HPBMINI.dll. This file checks the OS version and terminates the spooler
process since it does not understand OS version 6.

XP works since the old version of the HP installer file was built for OS
version 5.
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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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[GoMCSE]

This problem is extremely frustrating. Microsoft blames third party drivers,
but this looks more like a Vista problem.

I have not updated the drivers on my computers, and two of them are now
throwing the "spooler app" error.

I have cleared the registry and uninstalled the drivers, I have deleted all
items from the Printers folder, and I have shut off the Internet Printing and
turned on LPR & LDR.

The spooler still crashes. I've been working on this problem for 3 days now.

Does anyone have a better or alternative answer?

Dave H.

 

[Rlummis]

I am running Windows Vista Ultimate (??!!) on my home machine with two days'
worth of downloaded patches, fixes, and updates through SP1. I am trying to
print to an OKI 5200n printer, and I have the same problem, including
Microsoft's non-responsiveness to thousands of people having the same issue.

I have discussed this with our corporate IT provider and our CEO and we will
not be switching to Vista.

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

I see that Okidata does not have a Vista driver but the XP driver (version
1.2.7) installed fine both as a local printer and connected to a machine
sharing the printer.

I do not have the device so I sent the 5200 data to a 5800 on the network.
The spooler did not fail with this driver.


Be sure to send your appcrash files to Microsoft. If it's a driver issue
they will be forwarded to Oki if this is the only print driver installed on
your machine.



--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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