Print spooler error report problem

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Birkonian

After almost three years uneventful XP running on my HP PC I've encountered
the error which tells me the Print Spooler has encountered an error and
(apologetically) tells me it is closing - even giving me the option of
sendingan Error Report to MS). The printer is an HP b/w Laserprinter1022.

What procedure must I follow to restart the spooler and equally important to
be sure I'm not restarting a corrupted module which will breakdown soon
after. I am not confident enough to start meddling with "regedit" so a
simple line-by-line recipe to correct this problem would be appreciated.
Thanks.

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This may help. Right click My Computer ->Manage->Services and
Applications->Services->Print Spooler.. probably automatic setting. You can
stop it; restart it. Because I seldom use printer I have Spooler set to
Manual, and only start it & printer power when I need to print.
 
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