Print Spooler

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I am running Vista Ultimate on a new Dell XPS M1210 laptop. I am trying
Vista to see if we should role it out business wide. I am having a problem
printing. It tells me that the Print Spooler is not started. When I try to
start the service, it won't start. Suggestions?
 
If you have an HP printer I do! :-)

I joined my shiny new Vista machine to my domain, where it was pushed a
bunch of standard printers. When this happened, my Print Spooler service
crashed.

The forum thread below explains that there's a file called HPBMINI.DLL used
by HP printers that must have a newer version than *.16 installed to avoid
crashing Vista when it installs the print drivers. I grabbed that file from
a Vista box that had a new driver manually installed, and copied it to the
server. I still have some testing to do but that seemed to work.

I copied it FROM (in Vista): C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3
....and TO the equivalent location in Windows Server 2003.

On printing a test page, the printers appear to have started using the new
DLL (even without re-registering it).

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=812642&SiteID=17

Hope this helps!
Simon
 
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