Print Spooler Service not staying on!

J

jakedeg

Hello All,

I know this has been discussed before, but I have read every posting
and still cannot solve the problem.

Although the Print Spooler Service is set to turn on automatically,
when I startup, it is not on. I can start it manually thought the
management console, but when I execute the Add a Printer wizard, the
service turns back off and I get an error message:

"The operation could not be completed. The print spooler service is not
running.

RPC is running an I have removed all printer drivers as well as I could
in the registry.
I have re-expanded spoolsv.exe and spoolss.dll from the XP Installation
Disc.

I have also run the cleanspl.exe and it says it has successfully
cleaned the spooler, but I still receive the same error when I try to
Add a Printer and the service turns itself off again.

I'm not sure what else to do here. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
Jake
 
C

Cari \(MS-MVP\)

Corrupted printer drivers are usually the problem. What printer(s) are you
trying to intall?
 

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