Print spooler problems in Vista Home Premium 64bit

I was printing fine until one day I got an error that said, Prin
Spooler not running. I restarted the print spooler and tried again.
got the same message. I have reinstalled drivers and rebooted th
system. I still get the same message. I can not add a printer or se
the printers that are installed

--
LBraley

Open an elevated command prompt and type

net start spooler


does it say the spooler started or do you get an error?



--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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"LBraley" <> wrote in message
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>
> I was printing fine until one day I got an error that said, Print
> Spooler not running. I restarted the print spooler and tried again. I
> got the same message. I have reinstalled drivers and rebooted the
> system. I still get the same message. I can not add a printer or see
> the printers that are installed.
>
>
> --
> LBraley

'Alan Morris [MSFT Wrote:
> ;976927']Open an elevated command prompt and typ
>
> net start spoole
>
> does it say the spooler started or do you get an error

Because I have the same extremly strange and illogical problem:

"CMD run as Administrator" as you suggest lets me start the spooler bu
with the next print job the "spooler does not work no solution ready
comes back

And now hold your breath:

I moved to a bigger system drive recently, did the cloning wit
"Acronis True Image 10 full version".

After the cloning everything worked fine until yesterday afternoon whe
suddenly the spooler pains began out of nowhere

So I swithed back to the old (slow) harddrive where everything work
fine still and I can print.

I created a sector-by-sector-image of that drive and reloaded it ont
the fast drive

Does not print

Also the infamous 2007 Microsoft knowledge base article ("delet
Acrobat Professional 8.1.x and all printers by hand in safe mode..."
does not help a bit

No piece of non-working software can technically be in a sector b
sector image of a drive that works just fine

The reason must lie somewhere outside the box

I have to switch back to the old drive until a solution is provided b
whoever is responsible for the error

Fran

--
FRF

I have the exact same problem. Any insight?

"LBraley" wrote:

>
> I was printing fine until one day I got an error that said, Print
> Spooler not running. I restarted the print spooler and tried again. I
> got the same message. I have reinstalled drivers and rebooted the
> system. I still get the same message. I can not add a printer or see
> the printers that are installed.
>
>
> --
> LBraley
>

Start by getting the spooler service running. You will need to delete the
print drivers that are causing the spooler to crash from the registry.


If you have a Lexmark there are a couple other steps.

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm




--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1

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"n601ap" <> wrote in message
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>I have the exact same problem. Any insight?
>
> "LBraley" wrote:
>
>>
>> I was printing fine until one day I got an error that said, Print
>> Spooler not running. I restarted the print spooler and tried again. I
>> got the same message. I have reinstalled drivers and rebooted the
>> system. I still get the same message. I can not add a printer or see
>> the printers that are installed.
>>
>>
>> --
>> LBraley
>>