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Vista Print Spooler Stopping

Cannot Print on Windows Vista - Print Spooler Error Messages


The Problem

You suddenly cannot print on a Windows Vista PC. You keep getting error messages about the Print Spooler Stopping or the Print Spooler Service Not Running or Print Spooler Subsystem has stopped working.


Background

Everything was working fine and then someone clicked on a PDF file in an email and tried to print it. Then for about a week, nothing could be printed on that PC. Any attempt to print resulted in one of the various Print Spooler errors.


The Solution

We did 2 things that fixed it.

 

1. Go to Control Panel, Programs and Features. Click Turn Windows Features On or Off

Expand Print Services

Untick Internet Printing Client

Tick LPD Print Service

Tick LPR Port Monitor

click OK

 

2. Go to C:\Windows\System32\spool\PRINTERS

Delete all the files in there.

 

That completely fixed the problem and we can now print OK. Hope it works for you too.


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