Printer properties cannot be displayed. The print spooler service isnot running.

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yawnmoth

When I right click on a particular printer and try to view the
Properties of it, I get the following message:

Printer properties cannot be displayed. The print spooler service is
not running

Problem is, it is running, as going to Administrative Tools ->
Services in the Control Panel verifies.

One of the "printers" I have installed is "Send To OneNote 2007". I
can right click on that just fine - just not this other printer.
Would I be able to do that if the print spooler wasn't running?

Indeed, if I do disable the print spooler, *all* the printers in
"Printers and Faxes" disappear. So the fact that I'm even seeing them
in the first place suggests to me that the printer spooler is running.
 
Is the (real) printer in question installed on your own PC or on a network?
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It's a "Local printer attached to this computer" connected via a
"Standard TCP/IP Port". Personally, I think such a printer ought to
be called "A network printer, or a printer attached to another
computer", but that's the terminology the "Add Printer Wizard" uses.
If you try and start the Print Spooler, what is the message on the screen?

http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_Nine.htm
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I don't currently have access to the computer, however, I'm not really
sure of the applicability of that URL. The printers disappeared
because I *did* disable the Print Spooler. That they reappear when I
reenable it goes without saying. The reason I mentioned it is to
establish that, near as I can tell, the Print Spooler *is* running.
 
This problem of your windows XP a gap of 'Print Spooler'
(http://www.utilitiessoftware.org/print-spooler). please visit 'Print
Spooler | Utilities Software'
(http://www.utilitiessoftware.org/print-spooler)
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C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\PRINTERS is empty. It's empty when the
Print Spooler is running and it's empty when it isn't.

Also, I was unable to install KB896423 since I'm running SP3. Trying
to install it got me the following:

Setup has detected that the Service Pack version of this system
is newer than the updates you are applying.

There is no need to install this update.
 
It's a "Local printer attached to this computer" connected via a
"Standard TCP/IP Port".  Personally, I think such a printer ought to
be called "A network printer, or a printer attached to another
computer", but that's the terminology the "Add Printer Wizard" uses.



I don't currently have access to the computer, however, I'm not really
sure of the applicability of that URL.  The printers disappeared
because I *did* disable the Print Spooler.  That they reappear when I
reenable it goes without saying.  The reason I mentioned it is to
establish that, near as I can tell, the Print Spooler *is* running.
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The message I get is as follows:

Windows is attempting to start the following service on Local
Computer...

Print Spooler

The green bar advances and then the window disappears after the Print
Spooler has been activated.
 
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