Spooler Service eats up all memory

[Guest]

Hi,

Im having a litle big problem with one of our PCs.
The bad thing is, we have more than 150 PCs here and this one is from one of
our developpers and not-so-easy to just make new.
Since 4 days now, whenever the computer is booted, it comes up again and is
sloooooow like a slug. Looking at the process list, I see the spoolsv.exe
with something in between 97 and 100% CPU usage.

The only way to make the computer work normal again is to shut down the
Print Spooler Service. But unfortunately then the guy isn't able to print :-(

I have enabled him to start & stop the service manually, but that'S not
really a solution.

Has anyone had this problem already or have an Idea how to solve it?

The PCs are Pentium IV with 1 Gig of Mem, 40 Gig HDD, Win XP SP1 (and I'm
not allowed to install SP2)

 

[Roberto]

Hi,

Im having a litle big problem with one of our PCs.
The bad thing is, we have more than 150 PCs here and this one is from one
of
our developpers and not-so-easy to just make new.
Since 4 days now, whenever the computer is booted, it comes up again and
is
sloooooow like a slug. Looking at the process list, I see the spoolsv.exe
with something in between 97 and 100% CPU usage.

The only way to make the computer work normal again is to shut down the
Print Spooler Service. But unfortunately then the guy isn't able to print
:-(

I have enabled him to start & stop the service manually, but that'S not
really a solution.

Has anyone had this problem already or have an Idea how to solve it?

The PCs are Pentium IV with 1 Gig of Mem, 40 Gig HDD, Win XP SP1 (and I'm
not allowed to install SP2)

Take a look in Control Panel\Printers, make sure there aren't any documents
stuck in the print queue

rgds
Roberto

 

[Guest]

look at this site http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/t1084676549

-or-

i have this problem to, in my case it was a tojaner, i catched it with
spybot and HijackThis, so try this!

-or-

try to delete all printers and reinstall it

-or-

search for newer drivers for your printers,

-or-

look an the spool directory, if there are any files!

 

[Seahawk60B]

I would -
1. Delete all his printers
2. Delete all his print drivers - ensure they are removed from the
spool directory and registry.
3. Delete all third party print processors - i.e. everything but
winprint

Restart the computer and verify that everything works normally.
If so, add his printers back one at a time, using the Microsoft
available print drivers when possible, if not, go to the manufacturer
website and download the latest.

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Printer drivers are corrupted on that PC. Uninstall and reinstall the
printer.