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spoolsv.exe woes

Conroy BumpasConroy Bumpas Registered User regular
edited November 2006 in Help / Advice Forum
hi

im running 2kpro on a crappy work compy

and everytime i do anything in any program that is anything slightly to do with printing spoolsv.exe hit 100% cpu usage. and it crashes the program. thakes ages to stop.

the printer is not evan conected to that pc. ther is a small network and its a usb printer on a pc in a diffrent room.


i have googled it and all i can find is stuff about microsoft image wrighter getting clogged up. i can't find microsoft image wrighter.

tryed spooling on on the priter options

tryed admin tools and stoping it.

all the other pcs are fine.

please help


thanks

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  • exoplasmexoplasm Gainfully Employed Near Blizzard HQRegistered User regular
    edited November 2006
    This seemed to crop up at my last job after a certain Windows update hit (on XP Pro). It seemed restarting the print spooler service was the only way to fix it and worked 99% of the time. Go into services (start->run..."services.msc") and find it in there and make it restart.

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  • embrikembrik Registered User regular
    edited November 2006
    Try switching print drivers if you can.

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