Print Spooler hangs the system

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I was trying to upgrade Internet Explorer when the system froze.
Since then, every time I started the computer, it would hang. I found the
guilty process to be the spool server using 99% of the CPU. If I stop the
print spooler the problem goes away. I looked at spoolsv.exe and it has not
been modified since Friday, June 10, 2005.
Any suggestions?

THANKS
 
Do you have any print jobs waiting to print?? Delete the jobs and check the
following location - C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS delete whats in it.
Check for viruses also.
 
Deleting the files in C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS did the trick.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
 

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