printer spooling

Posted: 07-21-2003, 02:39 PM

James Bennett

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If my pc has been shut down for more than 2 days, when I
reboot my pc sends a copy of the last 40 or so documents
to the printer. This doesn't seem to happen when I shut
down over night and it only sends AUTOCAD documents. Any
help would be greatly appreciated

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Aaron Wraight

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printer spooling

Posted: 07-21-2003, 03:23 PM

Always the same documents or always the most current?

Sounds like potential virus. First step, get up-to-date
antivirus signatures on a good antivirus product and do a
complete scan of your hard drive(s). Second, is your
printer shared? If so, someone may be trying to print
while your computer is off and when you turn it on a
couple of days later, you have a bunch of items in pushed
into queue. Are the printouts yours and unique to your
computer or could they be from someone else?

If you rule out virus and shared users, try uninstalling
the printer then reinstall, perhaps loading latest
drivers off web (trusted source of course). Consider
doing that with AUTOCAD as well. If problem persists
after that, could be a corrupt spooler dll in Windows
system. That's a stickier wicket.

Good luck.

Aaron

>-----Original Message-----
>If my pc has been shut down for more than 2 days, when I
>reboot my pc sends a copy of the last 40 or so documents
>to the printer. This doesn't seem to happen when I shut
>down over night and it only sends AUTOCAD documents. Any
>help would be greatly appreciated
>.
>

Bruce Sanderson

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Re: printer spooling

Posted: 07-22-2003, 04:15 AM

See the information at
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm.

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"wendi" <wendi.merritts@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I had a local printer working fine. When trying to
> access something else off the CD that came with the
> printer, I accidentally installed the NT driver over top
> of my XP driver. My printer wouldn't print. So I
> uninstalled the driver. In my attempt to reinstall the XP
> driver, I get a continued message that my print spooler
> service is not running. I can go in and manually start
> the spoolsv.exe, but when I try the driver, it keeps
> giving me the same error message that the spooler isn't
> running. Any ideas?

Stuck!!

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printer spooling

Posted: 12-29-2003, 06:11 AM

I tried to install a lexmark print trio. It worked and
then the next day said that it's driver could not be
found. So I uninstalled it and tried to reinstall. It
wont let me it says that the spooling service has
stopped. WHat is that and how do I fix it???

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printer spooling

Posted: 12-29-2003, 03:30 PM

The print spooler needs to be restarted.
Click on start and go into control panel, then go to
performance and maintence and then into administrative
tools if there is no performance and maintance go directly
into administrative tools , then go into services then
locate print spooler - Right click on print spooler then
left click on restart, if it says unable to restart the
print spooler then you need to contact your computer
manufacturer.

>-----Original Message-----
>I tried to install a lexmark print trio. It worked and
>then the next day said that it's driver could not be
>found. So I uninstalled it and tried to reinstall. It
>wont let me it says that the spooling service has
>stopped. WHat is that and how do I fix it???
>.
>

Cari MS-MVP

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Re: printer spooling

Posted: 12-30-2003, 07:44 AM

Start the spooler by typing

net start spooler

at the command prompt (and remembering to hit enter)

Cari
www.coribright.com

"Stuck!!" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I tried to install a lexmark print trio. It worked and
> then the next day said that it's driver could not be
> found. So I uninstalled it and tried to reinstall. It
> wont let me it says that the spooling service has
> stopped. WHat is that and how do I fix it???

cindy in alaska

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printer spooling

Posted: 04-26-2007, 05:48 PM

Hello,
I am sharing a printer at home with my laptop. I cannot use the printer, it
says printer spooling service is not running. Can someone help me out with
this.?? Ihave tried troubleshooting throuth the help option with no help at
all. Thank you for your help..

Cari $MS-MVP$

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Re: printer spooling

Posted: 04-26-2007, 06:37 PM

See:
http://www.coribright.com/windows/Article_Nine.htm
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http://www.coribright.com/windows

"cindy in alaska" <cindyinalaska@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:06BD4148-6F37-4C19-B34D-FEAED343D69B@microsoft.com...

> Hello,
> I am sharing a printer at home with my laptop. I cannot use the printer,
> it
> says printer spooling service is not running. Can someone help me out
> with
> this.?? Ihave tried troubleshooting throuth the help option with no help
> at
> all. Thank you for your help..

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