Print spooler error kills printer useage
Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 16:35
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
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