Print Spooler

[Steve]

I have Windows Vista Home Basic. When I go to print I get a message that
says "Local print spooler is not running. Restart the spooler or restart the
machine". I have done both and it still does not work. Please help, I need
to print some documents for tomorrow. Thanks much.

Stephen Reinstein
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Look in the spool directory for any print files that may be causing the
spooler to crash when scheduled

\windows\system32\spool\printers

move the files to a different location, then start the spooler.


I would also open a Command Prompt, right click, Run as administrator

and type

net start spooler



if the spooler fails during startup, there will be an error; 1068, 1075
means there is an issue with a service that the spooler has been made
dependant of.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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