Spooler subsystem has encountered a problem

Posted: 04-01-2004, 07:19 PM

jstocka

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I get the above message that "Spooler Sub system has
encounterd a problem and needs to Close" All of the
printer icons are missing and am not allowed to add new
printers without getting this message. ECP printer port
shows in Device Manager. Any ideas
Thank you

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Cari $MS-MVP$

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Re: Spooler subsystem has encountered a problem

Posted: 04-01-2004, 07:45 PM

See the following KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;324757

Cari
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"jstocka" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I get the above message that "Spooler Sub system has
> encounterd a problem and needs to Close" All of the
> printer icons are missing and am not allowed to add new
> printers without getting this message. ECP printer port
> shows in Device Manager. Any ideas
> Thank you

Hans

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RE: Spooler subsystem has encountered a problem

Posted: 06-09-2004, 02:34 PM

Try this:

Go to the folder c:\windows\system32\spool\printers. If there are recent files, cut them to an other location (for backup if this doesn't work). Then restart Windows XP.
I had this problem and this solved it.

Good luck

"jstocka" wrote:

> I get the above message that "Spooler Sub system has
> encounterd a problem and needs to Close" All of the
> printer icons are missing and am not allowed to add new
> printers without getting this message. ECP printer port
> shows in Device Manager. Any ideas
> Thank you
>

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