Print Spooler crash

[Jon Davis]

My Print Spooler service keeps crashing. This is after installing HP
Universal PCL 6 driver for and Dell Laser Printer 5100cn PCL6 driver, both
for Vista x64.

I have since:

- Removed the printers, crash still occurs.
- Cleared out C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers, crash still occurs

All I can do to just have an operating system that doesn't keep looping this
crash message is disable the Print Spooler service altogether. But now I
can't print!

Jon

 

[ls [sb]]

to remove the driver, did you open the printers control panel, then right
click in the body of the window, choose server properies, then the drivers
tab, and then remove it? or how?

 

[Jon Davis]

to remove the driver, did you open the printers control panel, then right
click in the body of the window, choose server properies, then the drivers
tab, and then remove it? or how?

First I removed the printers, then I removed the drivers.

I could barely get to the Printers control panel because the Spool would
keep crashing. The Printers control panel depends on this serivce. But I
could get in there long enough to right-click and remove, restarting the
Spooler service before each printer removal.

Then I removed the drivers by clearing out the
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers and rebooting.

Jon