Print spooler error kills printer useage

[miles]

My printer stopped working a couple of months ago. The error message says
it's a print spooler problem. It has also done this twice during the past
year and I reinstalled windows xp both times to fix it. So there must be
something about my computer that after a few months kills the print spooler
function (I guess it could be hardware or maybe NIS 2009?). In any case,
I've been reading comments in this newsgroup that maybe a complete reinstall
of windows may not be needed to fix the problem? I hope.

I did a search for spoolss.dll and found 3 instances on my computer, all in
the "C:\Windows\" folder as follows:

$NtServicePackUninstall$
version 5.1.2600.2180
created 4/19/2009

system32
version 5.1.2600.5512
created 8/23/2001

ServicePackfiles\i386
version 5.1.2600.5512
created 8/4/2004


Does any of the above info give any clues about a way to salvage my
computer?
Thanks,
Dick

[jose]

On Jun 18, 11:35

[jose]

On Jun 18, 11:35