Print spooler service is not running

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Brian

downloaded service pack 2 and now my printer will not
work. says print spooler service is not running and it
will also sat that the RPC server is unavailable. how do
I fix this?
 
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downloaded service pack 2 and now my printer will not
work. says print spooler service is not running and it
will also sat that the RPC server is unavailable. how do
I fix this?
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What happens when ya start the services manually..?
 
Hi Brian,

It sounds like we are having the same problem (see my entry on Service
Control Manager). If I try to manually restart this service while logged on
as a user, I get an error 5: Access Denied.

Anyone have any ideas?

Andre
 
When I go to the hkey_local_machine......\spooler i do not have an
DependOnService key. I only have \enum; \Parameters; \Performance;
and \Security.
 
Did you try a System File Check?

From the Command Prompt, type:

sfc /scannow
(note space between c and /)
 
Did you try a System File Check?

From the Command Prompt, type:

sfc /scannow
(note space between c and /)
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yes, i am not sure of what that resulted in. Using a free registry
checker it found hundred's of registry errors. Should I invest in
fixing them first?
 
I found that I had message -Print spooler service is not running-Befor
upgrading the SP2.

After running Nortons it detected an unknown virus which I isolated an
removed.

Then having searched web and earlier downloaded windows resources kit
ran cleanspl.exe.

This fixed problem. But then required loading all print drivers!

Until I had isolated virus and removed it, the virus had earlie
stopped cleanspl.exe working.


RAD


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