Print Spooler

[Coach]

My print spooler is not working. I have had to enable something before, but
cannot remember how i did it? I think it was something in device manager. Any
Ideas?

 

[Steve Cochran]

Go to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services and right click on the Print spooler and choose Start or else restart and make sure its not disabled.

steve

 

[HeyBub]

My print spooler is not working. I have had to enable something
before, but cannot remember how i did it? I think it was something in
device manager. Any Ideas?

At a command prompt, enter

NET START SPOOLER

you can make it into a batch file to automatically start if you like

 

[Nil]

At a command prompt, enter

NET START SPOOLER

That ought to work...

you can make it into a batch file to automatically start if you
like

That may work, but it shouldn't be necessary. The Print Spooler Service
should be set to Automatic in Services.msc. If it is set that way, but
you keep finding it in a stopped condition after rebooting the
computer, something is wrong - the service is crashing for some reason.
The real problem needs to be addressed. The event log should provide
some clues.

 

[HeyBub]

That ought to work...


That may work, but it shouldn't be necessary. The Print Spooler
Service should be set to Automatic in Services.msc. If it is set that
way, but you keep finding it in a stopped condition after rebooting
the computer, something is wrong - the service is crashing for some
reason. The real problem needs to be addressed. The event log should
provide some clues.

Right. Here's a batch file (PURGE.BAT) to dump the contents of the spool
file.

@echo off
echo.
echo Purging the print queue . . .
net stop Spooler
echo Deleting all print jobs . . .
ping localhost -n 4 > nul
del /q %SystemRoot%\system32\spool\printers\*.*
net start Spooler
echo Done!
ping localhost -n 4 > nul

I use this when everything is so hoplessly FUBARed, it's just easier to
start over than to try and cancel 100 jobs in the print queue.