J
Joe Ventre
I did a dumb thing - thinking that my spoolsv.exe was infected by a virus
(it wasn't) I removed all occurences of spoolsv.exe from my registry. Low
and behold all my printers disappeared. Dummy me did not backup my registry
before editing it. Now when I try to install a printer I get an error that
says the print spooler service is not running. If I try to run spoolsv.exe
nothing happens. I also tried to go to a DOS prompt to run "net start
spooler" but that gives me an error the says the service name is invalid. I
did not delete the spoolsv.exe program so it is still in my
windows/systems32 directory. How can I get this to run and to be able to
re-install my printers.
(it wasn't) I removed all occurences of spoolsv.exe from my registry. Low
and behold all my printers disappeared. Dummy me did not backup my registry
before editing it. Now when I try to install a printer I get an error that
says the print spooler service is not running. If I try to run spoolsv.exe
nothing happens. I also tried to go to a DOS prompt to run "net start
spooler" but that gives me an error the says the service name is invalid. I
did not delete the spoolsv.exe program so it is still in my
windows/systems32 directory. How can I get this to run and to be able to
re-install my printers.