Print Spooler hangs the system

[Guest]

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

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

Deleting the files in C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS did the trick.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!